What does it mean for an object to be picklable (or pickle-able)?

Question

Python docs mention this word a lot and I want to know what it means! Googling doesn\'t help much..

Answer 1

Pickling is the process in which the objects in python are converted into simple binary representation that can be used to write that object in a text file which can be stored. This is done to store the python objects and is also called as serialization. You can infer from this what de-serialization or unpickling means.

So when we say an object is picklable it means that the object can be serialized using the pickle module of python.