The Ghosts of Distant Objects

Ben Clifford

Sometimes you have a Python object and you want it somewhere else: maybe you want to save your data to disk and load it again tomorrow; or you want to send some complex parameters over the network. I'll talk about pickle - the usual way to do this, including ways it can go wrong, how to extend it, compare it to other approaches like JSON or storing in a database; and I'll stick a little bit of theory in my talk too.