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Is there a text version of pickle?

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Is there a Python serialization format that has capabilities similar to Pickle, but is text based?

The problem I always have with pickle is that it's binary, so I can't manually view or edit the data.

The standard library includes json, but that requires a tedious converting of types at read and write.

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Have you tried pickle protocol 0? It's pretty ugly and I would choose json over it any day for readability, but it is human-readable text.

Michael‭ wrote 9 months ago

When I wanted to read the objects, I dumped a parallel file to JSON for convenience, but I haven't ever needed to update my pickles by hand.