asda?‰PNG  IHDR ? f ??C1 sRGB ??é gAMA ±? üa pHYs ? ??o¨d GIDATx^íüL”÷e÷Y?a?("Bh?_ò???¢§?q5k?*:t0A-o??¥]VkJ¢M??f?±8\k2íll£1]q?ù???T .. _persistence: **************** Data Persistence **************** The modules described in this chapter support storing Python data in a persistent form on disk. The :mod:`pickle` and :mod:`marshal` 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. The list of modules described in this chapter is: .. toctree:: pickle.rst copyreg.rst shelve.rst marshal.rst dbm.rst sqlite3.rst