Source: hickle Maintainer: Debian Python Team Uploaders: Edward Betts Section: python Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-sequence-python3, python3-all, python3-astropy, python3-dill , python3-h5py, python3-pandas, python3-pytest , python3-pytest-cov , python3-scipy, python3-setuptools Rules-Requires-Root: no Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Homepage: https://github.com/telegraphic/hickle Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/hickle Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/hickle.git Package: python3-hickle Architecture: all Depends: python3-h5py, ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends} Description: HDF5 based version of pickle An HDF5 based clone of 'pickle', with a twist: instead of serializing to a pickle file, Hickle dumps to an HDF5 file (Hierarchical Data Format). It is designed to be a "drop-in" replacement for pickle (for common data objects), but is really an amalgam of 'h5py' and 'pickle' with extended functionality. . That is: 'hickle' is a neat little way of dumping Python variables to HDF5 files that can be read in most programming languages, not just Python. Hickle is fast, and allows for transparent compression of your data (LZF / GZIP).