Python 3 - Can pickle handle byte objects larger than 4GB?

Question

Based on this comment and the referenced documentation, Pickle 4.0+ from Python 3.4+ should be able to pickle byte objects larger than 4 GB.

However, using python 3

Answer 1

Had the same issue and fixed it by upgrading to Python 3.6.8.

This seems to be the PR that did it: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9937