Sometimes it is handy to know how much space an object will need when it will be serialized with pickle without actually pickling it. Especially when the object is large, pickling can be slow and memory consuming.
This library can calculate the exact space requirement without actually pickling it. It still has to make a pass through the object tree, which takes time, especially with many small objects. The major advantage is that it won’t take significant memory.
picklesize has special support for numpy arrays to calculate the size without the array->`str`->`file` procedure of regular pickling that requires at least two copy operations.
Usage
The API is kept similar to the one of pickle:
import picklesize nbytes = picklesize.picklesize(obj, protocol=pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
Currently only protocol 2 (better known as pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL ) is supported.
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