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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex b/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex index ebc8975..2c59c82 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ \modulesynopsis{Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back.} % Substantial improvements by Jim Kerr <jbkerr@sr.hp.com>. -\index{persistency} +\index{persistence} \indexii{persistent}{objects} \indexii{serializing}{objects} \indexii{marshalling}{objects} @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The \module{pickle} module implements a basic but powerful algorithm for ``pickling'' (a.k.a.\ serializing, marshalling or flattening) nearly arbitrary Python objects. This is the act of converting objects to a stream of bytes (and back: ``unpickling''). This is a -more primitive notion than persistency --- although \module{pickle} +more primitive notion than persistence --- although \module{pickle} reads and writes file objects, it does not handle the issue of naming persistent objects, nor the (even more complicated) area of concurrent access to persistent objects. The \module{pickle} module can @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ great need for it right now (as long as \refmodule{marshal} continues to be used for reading and writing code objects), and at least this avoids the possibility of smuggling Trojan horses into a program. -For the benefit of persistency modules written using \module{pickle}, it +For the benefit of persistence modules written using \module{pickle}, it supports the notion of a reference to an object outside the pickled data stream. Such objects are referenced by a name, which is an arbitrary string of printable \ASCII{} characters. The resolution of @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ Apart from the \class{Pickler} and \class{Unpickler} classes, the module defines the following functions, and an exception: \begin{funcdesc}{dump}{object, file\optional{, bin}} -Write a pickled representation of \var{obect} to the open file object +Write a pickled representation of \var{object} to the open file object \var{file}. This is equivalent to \samp{Pickler(\var{file}, \var{bin}).dump(\var{object})}. If the optional \var{bin} argument is present and nonzero, the binary @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ cannot be subclassed. This should not be an issue in most cases. The format of the pickle data is identical to that produced using the \refmodule{pickle} module, so it is possible to use \refmodule{pickle} and -\module{cPickle} interchangably with existing pickles. +\module{cPickle} interchangeably with existing pickles. (Since the pickle data format is actually a tiny stack-oriented programming language, and there are some freedoms in the encodings of |