Scope Limitation

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We need to limit the scope of this assignment. The description gave,

Possible options are different operating systems, different Python (but not pickle) versions, floating point accuracy, and recursive data structures. Please keep your mind open to other options.

After some disccusion we came up that we wanted to try out the following.

• Fuzz pickel and assert that the load and dump (hash) input and output is the same, on the same version and OS.
• Check the hash of the dump file across multiple versions and OS
• Check the results that we get from unpickling across multiple versions and OS
• Floating point accuracy on the same version AND OS.

We also need to be aware if we are going to a higher version to a lower one, or vice versa. As the results might differ.

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There appears to be 7 types that pickle is supposed to handle. Making sure that we can fuzz these is a good idea. https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html#what-can-be-pickled-and-unpickled

Though a part of this a class / objects, which are hard to fuzz. This means we prolly need to unit test them, sadly.

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Protocols are an interesting thing that one might want to set and therefore we might want to test. However, this prolly returns incomprehensible results. Since we can't figure out a good way or even if it its a good idea, we shall instead take note of it and make sure we use the same protocol for the testing we do.