Python provides the pickle module to store any Python object in a file and get it back later on. This is called storing the object persistently.In fact there is also a module called cPickle, which is ...

Python pickle is what other framework calls serialization, marshalling etc. When you hear pickling, think marshalling ie. object graph to intermediate format, and when you hear unpickling, think ...

Evan Sultanik, principal computer security researcher with Trail of Bits, has unpacked the Python world’s pickle data format and found it distasteful. He is not the first to do so, and acknowledges as ...

We explored the current state of Python serialization in the context of distributed computing. The challenging points addressed are: object-type support, speed and size, version compatibility, and ...