Python supports serializing and unserializing arbitrary objects. (Most Python references call this process “pickling” and “unpickling.”) This can be useful for saving state to a file and restoring it later. All of the native datatypes support pickling already. If you create a custom class that you to be able to pickle, read up on the pickle protocol to see when and how the following special methods are called. +
Python supports serializing and unserializing arbitrary objects. (Most Python references call this process “pickling” and “unpickling.”) This can be useful for saving state to a file and restoring it later. All of the native datatypes support pickling already. If you create a custom class that you want to be able to pickle, read up on the pickle protocol to see when and how the following special methods are called.
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