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  • verb transitive, programming To deserialize.

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un- +‎ pickle

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Examples

  • You never have to manually pickle or unpickle anything.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • You never have to manually pickle or unpickle anything.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • Implementation through injection of a pickle/unpickle wrapper around each stage.

    Planet Python 2010

  • This has the advantage that -- unless you've done something really bad -- you should be able to pickle and unpickle each tuple, easily seeding a multi-processing pipeline.

    Planet Python 2010

  • Implementation through injection of a pickle/unpickle wrapper around each stage.

    Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community slott 2010

  • This has the advantage that -- unless you've done something really bad -- you should be able to pickle and unpickle each tuple, easily seeding a multi-processing pipeline.

    Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community slott 2010

  • However, when objects need to be made available again, ZODB must unpickle them, arguably much more expensive than paging.

    Planet Python 2009

  • Is it possible to unpickle it in a different process that doesn't know about the Point class yet?

    Planet XML 2008

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  • I’m planning to use Pickle for my unit tests. I have to be careful though:

    “Warning: The pickle module is not intended to be secure against erroneous or maliciously constructed data. Never unpickle data received from an untrusted or unauthenticated source.”

    Hmm, I feel weird for pitying a function for a name at whose bathetic effect I’m unduly amused.

    June 12, 2010