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Author	pitrou
Recipients	georg.brandl, jcea, kristjan.jonsson, loewis, michael.foord, pitrou, rhettinger, sbt
Date	2012-03-25.12:02:37
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> The thing to emphasise here is that pickling an iterator is > "destructive": afterwards the original iterator will be "empty". If you look at the patch it isn't (or shouldn't be). I agree with Raymond that accumulating dict and set iterators in a list is a bit weird. That said, with hash randomization, perhaps we can't do any better (the order of elements in the internal table depends on the process-wide hash seed).

> The thing to emphasise here is that pickling an iterator is
> "destructive": afterwards the original iterator will be "empty".

If you look at the patch it isn't (or shouldn't be).

I agree with Raymond that accumulating dict and set iterators in a list is a bit weird. That said, with hash randomization, perhaps we can't do any better (the order of elements in the internal table depends on the process-wide hash seed).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-03-25 12:02:38	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, loewis, georg.brandl, rhettinger, jcea, kristjan.jonsson, michael.foord, sbt
2012-03-25 12:02:38	pitrou	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2012-03-25 12:02:37	pitrou	link	issue14288 messages
2012-03-25 12:02:37	pitrou	create