Marshal vs pickle...

[Erik Max Francis]

Lawson English wrote:
> Marshalling is only briefly mentioned in most python books I have, and 
> "pickling" is declared teh preferred method for serialization.
> 
> I read somewhere that Marshalling is version-dependent while pickling is 
> not, but can't find that reference. OTOH, pickling can lead to loading 
> of malicious code (I understand) while marshalling only handles basic 
> Python types?
> 
> Could anyone point me to a reasonable discussion of the pros and cons of 
> each method for serialization?

They're both standard libraries and the official documentation for them 
on python.org describes their functionality in detail.

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