What Is Pickling And Unpickling In Python?

What Is Pickling And Unpickling In Python?

Published on September 28 2023
In this tutorial, you will learn Python's pickling and unpickling process. This tutorial is part of Python's top 25 most commonly asked interview questions.

What is Pickling?

  • Process of converting any Python objects into a byte stream, and dumping it into a file.
  • It is also sometimes called serialization.
  • Any object in Python can be serialized using the dump function from the pickle module.
import pickle
pickle.dump()

What is UnPickling?

  • It is the complete inverse of pickling.
  • Converting stored byte stream back into Python objects.
import pickle
pickle.load()

Applications

The pickling and unpickling process is used in the various ranges of the application features. A few are listed below:

  • Remote Procedure call (RPC).
  • Transferring data through the network

To know about it, please refer to the official documentation website - python.org.



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