dill: serialize all of python (almost)
# Version
0.2b1: 11/27/13
The latest released version is dill-0.2b1, available at:
http://dev.danse.us/trac/pathos
You can get the latest development release with all the shiny new features
at:
http://dev.danse.us/packages
or even better, fork us on our github mirror of the svn trunk:
https://github.com/uqfoundation
# Highlights
Dill can pickle the following standard types::
- none, type, bool, int, long, float, complex, str, unicode,
- tuple, list, dict, file, buffer, builtin,
- both old and new style classes,
- instances of old and new style classes,
- set, frozenset, array, lambda,
- standard functions, functions with yields, nested functions
- cell, method, unboundmethod, module, code, methodwrapper
- dictproxy, methoddescriptor, getsetdescriptor, memberdescriptor,
- wrapperdescriptor, xrange, slice,
- notimplemented, ellipsis, quit
- ... and more
Dill also provides the capability to::
- save and load python interpreter sessions
- save and extract the source code from functions and classes
- interactively diagnose pickling errors
# Features since 0.2a1:
- improved stability
- reduced import time
- fixes for distributions with missing std lib modules
- dump_session serializes new-style classes (*)
# Thanks:
Thanks to everyone who contributed, in particular thanks to Tom Stepleton
for the new-style class fix (*). The authors of dill also thank the UQ
Foundation, the Caltech PSAAP project, the ExMatEx project, the AFOSR, the
NSF and DOE for their recent support.
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Mike McKerns
California Institute of Technology
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns
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