Tutorial on Python Pickling

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In a previous tutorial, we created an instance of Person and Student class. You can serialize this object into a file with the pickle module…

This write the john object data in binary form to “person.dat”.

You can de-serialize it into a python object like …

You get back the john object by opening the data file as “read binary” and running pickle.load.

For security reasons, never read from an untrusted data source and deserialize it into a python object. It may do things that you may not intend.

So to serialize, pickle.dump()
To de-serialize, pickle.load()

For serialization of python data structures into json, you can use jsonpickle module.

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