Understanding Pickling in Python

Question

I have recently got an assignment where I need to put a dictionary (where each key refers to a list) in pickled form. The only problem is I have no idea what pickled form is

Answer 1

Pickling is just serialization: putting data into a form that can be stored in a file and retrieved later. Here are the docs on the pickle module:

http://docs.python.org/release/2.7/library/pickle.html