Pickling Example

import pickle      # never cPickle
obj = random_python_object()
...stuff...

fh = open('saurkraut', 'w')
pickle.dump(obj, fh)
fh.close()

fh2 = open('saurkraut', 'r')
obj2 = pickle.load(fh2)

obj2 is now equivalent to obj.