Definition of 'pickle'

[Rami Saarinen]

anson wrote:
> Dear people,
> 
> I don't understand the definition provided in the Python documentation
> for 'pickle':
[snip]

I have had no need of it and I am quite newbie myself on Python, but 
AFAIK pickle can be used for example saving (and loading) object 
instances to a file, or for example sending instances over the net to
another location (and another application).

Quite like serialization in Java, I think.

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