Pickling

Updated: 04/26/2017 by Computer Hope
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With the programming language Python, pickling is a term that coders use when discussing object serialization. Pickle is a mechanism for serializing objects. When a programmer uses pickle to serialize an object, they are called pickling, or Python pickling. Conversely, if a programmer is deserializing an object, they are said to be unpickling.

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