"serialization", "marshalling," [#]_ or "flattening", however, to avoid
confusion, the terms used here are "pickling" and "unpickling"..
+.. warning::
+
+ The :mod:`pickle` module is not intended to be secure against erroneous or
+ maliciously constructed data. Never unpickle data received from an untrusted
+ or unauthenticated source.
+
Relationship to other Python modules
------------------------------------
The :mod:`pickle` serialization format is guaranteed to be backwards compatible
across Python releases.
-.. warning::
-
- The :mod:`pickle` module is not intended to be secure against erroneous or
- maliciously constructed data. Never unpickle data received from an untrusted
- or unauthenticated source.
-
Note that serialization is a more primitive notion than persistence; although
:mod:`pickle` reads and writes file objects, it does not handle the issue of
naming persistent objects, nor the (even more complicated) issue of concurrent