Mastering pandas - Second Edition

Serialization/deserialization

Serialization is the process of translating data structures or object state into a format that can be stored (for example, in a file or memory buffer) or transmitted (for example, across a network connection link) and reconstructed later (possibly in a different computer environment).[1] When the resulting series of bits is reread according to the serialization format, it can be used to create a semantically identical clone of the original object.

Data structures such as JSON, arrays, DataFrames, and Series sometimes need to be stored as physical files or transmitted over a network. These serializations can be understood as a dump of data where data can be stored in any format (text, CSV, and so on) or structure ...