Letter of the Week
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Pickling – is the process whereby a Python object hierarchy is converted into a byte stream. Unpickling – is the inverse operation, whereby a byte stream is converted back into an object hierarchy. Pickling (and unpickling) is alternatively known as serialization, marshalling, or flattening. import pickle data1 = {‘a’: [1, 2.0, 3, 4+6j],’b’: (‘string’, u’Unicode…
About the Archivist
This is a curated selection of letters that left a mark on the world, on someone’s life, or just in the margins of time.
Each is transcribed with care and respect for the medium that first carried it: the typewritten page.
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