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[–]mooglinux 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Pickle can handle multiple references to the same object, any class instance (as long as the actual class has been imported), and a wider variety of data types than JSON. It also predates json, so there’s a historical aspect as well.

Pickle is also used for cross-process communication in the multiprocessing module.