Python in a Nutshell

Name

Pickler

Synopsis

Pickler(fileobj,bin=0)

Creates and returns an object p such that calling p .dump is equivalent to calling function dump with the fileobj and bin argument values passed to Pickler. To serialize many objects to a file, Pickler is more convenient and faster than repeated calls to dump. You can subclass pickle.Pickler to override Pickler methods (particularly method persistent_id) and create your own persistence framework. However, this is an advanced issue, and is not covered further in this book.