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unpickle

unpickle verb: to deserialize.

Verb

unpickle (third-person singular simple present unpickles, present participle unpickling, simple past and past participle unpickled)

  1. (transitive) To deserialize.
    • To reconstruct the message, the receiver must strip the length header, read the entire message, unpickle the contents, and call logging.makeLogRecord().2009, David M. Beazley, Python essential reference, page 362

Forms of unpickle

third-person singular presentunpickles
present participleunpickling
past participleunpickled
pastunpickled

Origin of unpickle

From un- + pickle.

Questions about unpickle

What does unpickle mean?
Unpickle means to deserialize.
What part of speech is unpickle?
Unpickle is a verb.
What is the past tense of unpickle?
The past tense of unpickle is unpickled.

Words near unpickle in the dictionary

  1. unpicker
  2. unpickers
  3. unpicketed
  4. unpicking
  5. unpickings
  6. unpickle
  7. unpickled
  8. unpickles
  9. unpickling
  10. unpicks
  11. unpictorial

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