Object Serialization
Motivation
Sometimes you need to save an object to disk and restore it later.
Or maybe you need to ship it across the network.
Problem
Manual implementation requires a lot of work.
Must come up with some kind of encoding scheme.
Must write code to marshal objects to and from the encoding.
Fortunately...
Python provides several modules to do all of this for you
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O'Reilly OSCON 2000, Advanced Python Programming, Slide 45
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