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 ...

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 ...

In previous versions of Python, data could be shared between processes only by writing it out to a file, sending it over a network socket, or serializing it using Python’s pickle module.

How does Python pickling work? When a byte stream is unpickled, the pickle module creates an instance of the original object first and then populates the instance with the correct data. To achieve ...

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 ...