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@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
\section{Standard Module \sectcode{pickle}}
+\label{module-pickle}
\stmodindex{pickle}
\index{persistency}
\indexii{persistent}{objects}
@@ -133,30 +134,30 @@ The interface can be summarized as follows.
To pickle an object \code{x} onto a file \code{f}, open for writing:
-\begin{verbatim}
+\bcode\begin{verbatim}
p = pickle.Pickler(f)
p.dump(x)
-\end{verbatim}
-
+\end{verbatim}\ecode
+%
A shorthand for this is:
-\begin{verbatim}
+\bcode\begin{verbatim}
pickle.dump(x, f)
-\end{verbatim}
-
+\end{verbatim}\ecode
+%
To unpickle an object \code{x} from a file \code{f}, open for reading:
-\begin{verbatim}
+\bcode\begin{verbatim}
u = pickle.Unpickler(f)
x = u.load()
-\end{verbatim}
-
+\end{verbatim}\ecode
+%
A shorthand is:
-\begin{verbatim}
+\bcode\begin{verbatim}
x = pickle.load(f)
-\end{verbatim}
-
+\end{verbatim}\ecode
+%
The \code{Pickler} class only calls the method \code{f.write} with a
string argument. The \code{Unpickler} calls the methods \code{f.read}
(with an integer argument) and \code{f.readline} (without argument),