Dieter Maurer wrote: > moo...@yahoo.co.uk writes: >> ... >> Does pickle have any advantages over json/yaml? > > It can store and retrieve almost any Python object with almost no effort. > > Up to you whether you see it as an advantage to be able to store > objects rather than (almost) pure data with a rather limited type set. > > > Of course, "pickle" is a proprietary Python format. Not so easy to > decode it with something else than Python. In addition, when > you store objects, the retrieving application must know the classes > of those objects -- and its knowledge should not be too different > from how those classes looked when the objects have been stored. > > > I like very much to work with objects (rather than with pure data). > Therefore, I use "pickle" when I know that the storing and retrieving > applications all use Python. I use pure (and restricted) data formats > when non Python applications come into play.
Typically what I want to do is post-process (e.g. plot) results using python scripts, so using pickle is great for that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
