Python provides the pickle module to store any Python object in a file and get it back later on. This is called storing the object persistently.In fact there is also a module called cPickle, which is ...

Python pickle is what other framework calls serialization, marshalling etc. When you hear pickling, think marshalling ie. object graph to intermediate format, and when you hear unpickling, think ...

How does Python pickling work? When a byte stream is unpickled, the pickle module creates an instance of the original object first and then populates the instance with the correct data. To achieve ...

Python’s pickle module provides a way to serialize and deserialize Python data structures—for instance, to allow a dictionary to be saved as-is to a file and reloaded later.

Even Python's own documentation on the pickle module admits that security is not included. It begins, "Warning: The pickle module is not secure. Only unpickle data you trust," and goes on from there.