Mastering Object-Oriented Python - Second Edition

Looking forward

In Chapter 11, Storing and Retrieving Objects via Shelve, and Chapter 12, Storing and Retrieving Objects via SQLite, we'll look at two common approaches to making larger collections of persistent objects. These two chapters show us different approaches we can use to create a database of Python objects.

In Chapter 13, Transmitting and Sharing Objects, we'll apply these serialization techniques to the problem of making an object available in another process. We'll focus on RESTful web services as a simple and popular way to transmit an object among processes.

In Chapter 14, Configuration Files and Persistence, we'll apply these serialization techniques yet again. In this case, we'll use representations such as JSON and YAML ...