Serialization example

# pickle_save.py
# program to create and save some data

import pickle

mystring = 'this is just a simple string'
mylist = ['this is my list', 5, 'bla bla']

file = open('mydata.pickled', 'w')
pickle.dump(mystring, file)
pickle.dump(mylist, file)

# pickle_read.py
# program to read in the pickled data

import pickle

file = open('mydata.pickled', 'r')
mydata = pickle.load(file)
print mydata
mydata = pickle.load(file)
print mydata

Output:

this is just a simple string
['this is my list', 5, 'bla bla']