Serialization, Config & Data Interchange

pickle & Its Dangers

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What pickle Is and Why It Exists

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IN THIS LESSON

YOU’RE LEARNING TO

↗use pickle.dump and pickle.load to serialize arbitrary Python objects

↗explain what pickle can and cannot serialize

↗articulate the critical security risk of unpickling untrusted data and why it enables arbitrary code execution

↗use shelve as a persistent dict backed by pickle

↗choose among JSON, pickle, and msgpack based on the use case