Definition of 'pickle'

[Lorenzo Bolognini]

"anson" <aeze616 at cse.unsw.edu.au> ha scritto nel messaggio
> The pickle module implements a fundamental, but powerful algorithm
for
> serializing and de-serializing a Python object structure.
``Pickling''

As far as I know "to pickle" means saving not only the data to a file
but also it's data type! Have you ever seen that garbage in a .DAT
file? Most of them are serialized files.

Lorenzo