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diff --git a/Doc/libpickle.tex b/Doc/libpickle.tex index 5eef11c..41191d4 100644 --- a/Doc/libpickle.tex +++ b/Doc/libpickle.tex @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ \indexii{flattening}{objects} \indexii{pickling}{objects} -\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(in module pickle)} +\setindexsubitem{(in module pickle)} The \code{pickle} module implements a basic but powerful algorithm for ``pickling'' (a.k.a.\ serializing, marshalling or flattening) nearly @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ There are some restrictions on the pickling of class instances. First of all, the class must be defined at the top level in a module. Furthermore, all its instance variables must be picklable. -\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(pickle protocol)} +\setindexsubitem{(pickle protocol)} When a pickled class instance is unpickled, its \code{__init__()} method is normally \emph{not} invoked. \strong{Note:} This is a deviation @@ -144,35 +144,35 @@ definition is not pickled, but re-imported by the unpickling process. Therefore, the restriction that the class must be defined at the top level in a module applies to pickled classes as well. -\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(in module pickle)} +\setindexsubitem{(in module pickle)} The interface can be summarized as follows. To pickle an object \code{x} onto a file \code{f}, open for writing: -\bcode\begin{verbatim} +\begin{verbatim} p = pickle.Pickler(f) p.dump(x) -\end{verbatim}\ecode +\end{verbatim} % A shorthand for this is: -\bcode\begin{verbatim} +\begin{verbatim} pickle.dump(x, f) -\end{verbatim}\ecode +\end{verbatim} % To unpickle an object \code{x} from a file \code{f}, open for reading: -\bcode\begin{verbatim} +\begin{verbatim} u = pickle.Unpickler(f) x = u.load() -\end{verbatim}\ecode +\end{verbatim} % A shorthand is: -\bcode\begin{verbatim} +\begin{verbatim} x = pickle.load(f) -\end{verbatim}\ecode +\end{verbatim} % The \code{Pickler} class only calls the method \code{f.write()} with a string argument. The \code{Unpickler} calls the methods \code{f.read()} |