pickle module
import pickle '''#pickling a python object friends=["vijay","shankar","raju"] file="friends.pkl" #define a pickle file fileobj=open(file,"wb") #pickle file object in write binary(wb) mode pickle.dump(friends,fileobj) #dump method is used to add content to the pickle file fileobj.close() #we cannot read simply pickle file in text format because it is of binary format''' #reading a pickle file fileobj= open ( "friends.pkl" , "rb" ) myfriends=pickle.load(fileobj) #load method is used to read a pickle file print (myfriends) fileobj.close()