Sending binary pickled data through TCP

[Fredrik Lundh]

David Hirschfield wrote:

> Are there any existing python modules that do the equivalent of pickling 
> on arbitrary python data, but do it a lot faster? I wasn't aware of any 
> that are as easy to use as pickle, or don't require implementing them 
> myself, which is not something I have time for.

cPickle is faster than pickle.  marshal is faster than cPickle, but only 
supports certain code object types.

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