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claytonjy on Aug 2, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: DotDict: A simple Python library to make chained a...

I can't remember the last time I _wanted_ to pickle something. Parquet and JSON pretty much cover it for me. I guess pickling made more sense before tools like Pydantic were good and popular?

If I want all the python-specific nuance on disk, I know I'm in a bad place!

nurettin on Aug 6, 2023 [–]

I use pickle to serialize RPC requests between internal services. Nothing beats it in terms of speed and ease of use.

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