stringified cPickle

[Chris Mellon]

On 11/17/05, David Bear <david.bear at asu.edu> wrote:
> I'm rather new to pickling but I have some dictionaries and lists I want to
> package and send to another process (on another machine).
>
> I was hoping I could just send a stringified pickle. However, the examples
> in the doc have:
>
> >>> import pickle
> >>> pickle.dump(obj,open('save.p','w'))
>
> I don't really want to write to a file. I know I could write to sys.stdout.
> But I'd rather collect the string and do some garbage collect, etc before I
> exit the script.
>
> Is there a way to have cPickle just hand me a string?
>
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