A persistent object has been serialized to a storage medium. Perhaps it has been transformed to JSON and written to the filesystem. Perhaps an object-relational management (ORM) layer can store the object in a database.

The following chapters will be covered in this section:

• Chapter 10, Serializing and Saving – JSON, YAML, Pickle, CSV, and XML
• Chapter 11, Storing and Retrieving Objects via Shelve
• Chapter 12, Storing and Retrieving Objects via SQLite
• Chapter 13, Transmitting and Sharing Objects
• Chapter 14, Configuration Files and Persistence