Winter Madness - Passing Python objects as Strings

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    Hendrik> A can is like a pickle, in that it is a string, but anything
    Hendrik> can be canned.  Unlike a pickle, a can cannot leave the
    Hendrik> process, though, unless the object it points to lives in shared
    Hendrik> memory.

Got some use cases?

Thx,

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