Pickle to source code

[Benjamin Niemann]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:

> I want to convert from pickle format to python source code. That is,
> given an existing pickle, I want to produce a textual representation
> which, when evaluated, yields the original object (as if I had
> unpickled the pickle).
> I know of some transformations pickle/xml (Zope comes with one such
> tool, gnosis xml is another) so I believe I could build something based
> on them.
> But I dont want to reinvent the wheel, I wonder if anyone knows of a
> library which could do what I want?

If all objects correctly implement the __repr__ method (true for built-in
stuff like list, dict, set...):
Just unpickle it and call repr() on the resulting object.


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