Ben Clifford
Ben has worked as a programmer mostly in the fields of high performance computing and functional programming. He's mostly doing Python these days, but he's been paid for at least Haskell, FORTRAN and PHP. He's especially interested in bringing ideas from one language into another.
Session
04-04
15:30
25min
The Ghosts of Distant Objects
Ben Clifford
Sometimes you have a Python object and you want it somewhere else: maybe you want to save your data to disk and load it again tomorrow; or you want to send some complex parameters over the network.
I'll talk about pickle - the usual way to do this, including ways it can go wrong, how to extend it, compare it to other approaches like JSON or storing in a database; and I'll stick a little bit of theory in my talk too.
Python
Room 111