12. Data Persistence

The modules described in this chapter support storing Python data in a persistent form on disk. The pickle and marshal modules can turn many Python data types into a stream of bytes and then recreate the objects from the bytes. The various DBM-related modules support a family of hash-based file formats that store a mapping of strings to other strings.

The list of modules described in this chapter is:

Previous topic

11.11. macpath — Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions

Next topic

12.1. pickle — Python object serialization

This Page