11. Data Persistence — Python v3.2.6 documentation

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:

11.1. pickle — Python object serialization
11.2. copyreg — Register pickle support functions
- 11.2.1. Example
11.3. shelve — Python object persistence
- 11.3.1. Restrictions
- 11.3.2. Example
11.4. marshal — Internal Python object serialization
11.5. dbm — Interfaces to Unix “databases”
11.6. sqlite3 — DB-API 2.0 interface for SQLite databases