Chapter 13: Serializing Python Objects

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Do you think serializing data structures is simple? Please, think again!

Spoilers...

import pickle, json

# make serializing data, great again!

See source: https://diveintopython3.net/serializing.html

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Review Questions

1. What can you Pickle?
2. The pickle module takes a Python data structure and saves it to a file. Discuss the caveats.
3. Not every Python data structure can be serialized by the pickle module. Discuss why.
4. Demonstrate saving data to a pickle file.
5. Demonstrate loading data from a pickle file
6. Demonstrate pickling without a file
7. Demonstrate how one can use pickletools to debug a pickle file
8. Demonstrate, data serialization for each python-specific datatypes to JSON