pickle Namespace Reference

Data Structures
class	PickleError
class	PicklingError
class	UnpicklingError
class	_Stop
class	Pickler
class	Unpickler
class	_EmptyClass

Functions
def	whichmodule
def	dump
def	dumps
def	load
def	loads

Variables
string	__version__ = "$Revision: 5816 $"
list	__all__
string	format_version = "1.3"
list	compatible_formats = ["1.0", "1.1", "1.2"]
	mdumps = marshal.dumps
	mloads = marshal.loads
	PyStringMap = None
	UnicodeType = None
string	MARK = '('
string	STOP = '.'
string	POP = '0'
string	POP_MARK = '1'
string	DUP = '2'
string	FLOAT = 'F'
string	INT = 'I'
string	BININT = 'J'
string	BININT1 = 'K'
string	LONG = 'L'
string	BININT2 = 'M'
string	NONE = 'N'
string	PERSID = 'P'
string	BINPERSID = 'Q'
string	REDUCE = 'R'
string	STRING = 'S'
string	BINSTRING = 'T'
string	SHORT_BINSTRING = 'U'
string	UNICODE = 'V'
string	BINUNICODE = 'X'
string	APPEND = 'a'
string	BUILD = 'b'
string	GLOBAL = 'c'
string	DICT = 'd'
string	EMPTY_DICT = '}'
string	APPENDS = 'e'
string	GET = 'g'
string	BINGET = 'h'
string	INST = 'i'
string	LONG_BINGET = 'j'
string	LIST = 'l'
string	EMPTY_LIST = ']'
string	OBJ = 'o'
string	PUT = 'p'
string	BINPUT = 'q'
string	LONG_BINPUT = 'r'
string	SETITEM = 's'
string	TUPLE = 't'
string	EMPTY_TUPLE = ')'
string	SETITEMS = 'u'
string	BINFLOAT = 'G'
dictionary	classmap = {}

Detailed Description

Create portable serialized representations of Python objects.

See module cPickle for a (much) faster implementation.
See module copy_reg for a mechanism for registering custom picklers.

Classes:

    Pickler
    Unpickler

Functions:

    dump(object, file)
    dumps(object) -> string
    load(file) -> object
    loads(string) -> object

Misc variables:

    __version__
    format_version
    compatible_formats

Function Documentation

def pickle.dump	(		object,
			file,
			bin = 0
	)

Definition at line 972 of file pickle.py.

def dump(object, file, bin = 0):
    Pickler(file, bin).dump(object)