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    The pickle module allows Python objects to be serialized and deserialized. Pickling converts an object into a byte stream, while unpickling reconstructs the original object from the byte stream. This allows objects to be stored on disk or transmitted over a network connection. However, unpickling potentially unsafe if untrusted data is unpickled since it can execute code during deserialization. The pickle module focuses on pickling dictionaries but can pickle other object types. It provides functions like dump, load, dumps and loads to pickle and unpickle objects and data. While pickling preserves object equality, it does not preserve object identity - the same object will have a different id after unpickling.

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    The pickle module allows Python objects to be serialized and deserialized. Pickling converts an object into a byte stream, while unpickling reconstructs the original object from the byte stream. This allows objects to be stored on disk or transmitted over a network connection. However, unpickling potentially unsafe if untrusted data is unpickled since it can execute code during deserialization. The pickle module focuses on pickling dictionaries but can pickle other object types. It provides functions like dump, load, dumps and loads to pickle and unpickle objects and data. While pickling preserves object equality, it does not preserve object identity - the same object will have a different id after unpickling.

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    The pickle module allows Python objects to be serialized and deserialized. Pickling converts an object into a byte stream, while unpickling reconstructs the original object from the byte stream. This allows objects to be stored on disk or transmitted over a network connection. However, unpickling potentially unsafe if untrusted data is unpickled since it can execute code during deserialization. The pickle module focuses on pickling dictionaries but can pickle other object types. It provides functions like dump, load, dumps and loads to pickle and unpickle objects and data. While pickling preserves object equality, it does not preserve object identity - the same object will have a different id after unpickling.

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    The pickle Module

    Python specific

    A way to represent an object in a persistent way à disk, transmission

    Create an object’s representation à serializing


    marshalling
    Reload object from representation à deserializing

    obj serialize deserialize obj


    101100011001…

    Pickle is a binary serialization (by default)

    Focus on dictionaries à Can be used for other object types

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    Danger Zone!

    Unpickling (deserializing) can execute code

    à not safe!

    Only unpickle data you trust

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    Usage

    import pickle

    dump à pickle to file


    load à unpickle from file

    dumps à returns a (string) pickled representation à store in a variable


    loads à unpickle from supplied argument

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    Equality and Identity

    equality à == identity à is

    0011
    pickle 0000 unpickle
    dict1 dict2
    1111
    01
    id=100 id=200

    dict1 == dict2 à True à Custom objects will need to implement __eq__

    dict1 is dict2 à False

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    Equality and Identity

    While pickling, Python will not re-serialize an object it has already serialized

    à recursive objects can be pickled

    à shared objects are deserialized as shared objects as well

    obj1 obj1

    • prop1 pickle / unpickle • prop1


    • prop2 • prop2

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    Coding

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