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What is pickling and what are its risks?

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Explain pickle.

serializationpickle
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pickle serializes Python objects to bytes and back. It's convenient but not secure — unpickling untrusted data can execute arbitrary code. For interoperable or untrusted data, prefer JSON or a safe schema format.

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PYRound-trip a complex object; why JSON can't
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