How to “stop” and “resume” long time running Python script?

Question

I wrote Python script that processes big number of large text files and may run a lot of time. Sometimes, there is a need to stop the running script and to

Answer 1

The execution could sleep it's life away, or (aside from the exceptions of security), the state of the script can be pickled, zipped, and stored.

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

http://docs.python.org/library/marshal.html

http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html (5.9)

http://docs.python.org/library/archiving.html

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