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Debugging Pickle Files

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What does the pickle protocol look like? Let’s jump out of the Python Shell for a moment and take a look at that entry.pickle file we created. To the naked eye, it’s mostly gibberish.

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you@localhost:~/diveintopython3/examples$ ls -l entry.pickle
-rw-r--r-- 1 you  you  358 Aug  3 13:34 entry.pickle
you@localhost:~/diveintopython3/examples$ cat entry.pickle
comments_linkqNXtagsqXdiveintopythonqXdocbookqXhtmlq?qX publishedq?
XlinkXJhttp://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/03/27/dive-into-history-2009-edition
q   Xpublished_dateq
ctime
struct_time
?qRqXtitleqXDive into history, 2009 editionqu.

That wasn’t terribly helpful. ...