Embed pickle (or arbitrary) data in python script

Question

In Perl, the interpreter kind of stops when it encounters a line with

__END__

in it. This is often used to embed arbitrary data at the end

Answer 1

If the data is not particularly large (many K) I would just .encode('base64') it and include that in a triple-quoted string, with .decode('base64') to get back the binary data, and a pickle.loads() call around it.