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Welcome to hickle's documentation!
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Hickle is a HDF5-based clone of `pickle`, with a twist: instead of serializing to a pickle file,
Hickle dumps to a HDF5 file (Hierarchical Data Format). It is designed to be a "drop-in" replacement for pickle (for common data objects), but is
really an amalgam of `h5py` and `dill`/`pickle` with extended functionality.

That is: `hickle` is a neat little way of dumping python variables to HDF5 files that can be read in most programming 
languages, not just Python. Hickle is fast, and allows for transparent compression of your data (LZF / GZIP). 



.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Contents:

.. automodule:: hickle
   :members: load, dump


Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`