compressed serialization module

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    Mark> def saveOjb(self, dataObj):
    Mark>     fName = self.version + '_' + self.modname + '.dat'
    Mark>     f = open(fName, 'w')
    Mark>     dStr = pickle.dumps(dataObj)
    Mark>     c = dStr.encode("bz2")
    Mark>     pickle.dump(c, f, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
    Mark>     f.close()

Hmmm...  Why pickle it twice?

    def saveOjb(self, dataObj):
        fName = self.version + '_' + self.modname + '.dat'
        f = open(fName, 'wb')
        f.write(pickle.dumps(dataObj, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL).encode("bz2"))
        f.close()

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