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<span id="persistence"></span><h1>11. Data Persistence<a class="headerlink" href="#data-persistence" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>The modules described in this chapter support storing Python data in a
persistent form on disk. The <a class="reference internal" href="pickle.html#module-pickle" title="pickle: Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">pickle</span></tt></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="marshal.html#module-marshal" title="marshal: Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back (with different constraints)."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">marshal</span></tt></a> modules can turn
many Python data types into a stream of bytes and then recreate the objects from
the bytes. The various DBM-related modules support a family of hash-based file
formats that store a mapping of strings to other strings.</p>
<p>The list of modules described in this chapter is:</p>
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