Function dumps

python/ray/cloudpickle/cloudpickle.py:1529–1545

Serialize obj as a string of bytes allocated in memory protocol defaults to cloudpickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL which is an alias to pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL. This setting favors maximum communication speed between processes running the same Python version. Set protocol=pickle.DEFAULT_PROT

(obj, protocol=None, buffer_callback=None)

def dumps(obj, protocol=None, buffer_callback=None):
    """Serialize obj as a string of bytes allocated in memory

    protocol defaults to cloudpickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL which is an alias to
    pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL. This setting favors maximum communication
    speed between processes running the same Python version.

    Set protocol=pickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL instead if you need to ensure
    compatibility with older versions of Python (although this is not always
    guaranteed to work because cloudpickle relies on some internal
    implementation details that can change from one Python version to the
    next).
    """
    with io.BytesIO() as file:
        cp = Pickler(file, protocol=protocol, buffer_callback=buffer_callback)
        cp.dump(obj)
        return file.getvalue()


# Include pickles unloading functions in this namespace for convenience.