Data marshalling support
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These routines allow C code to work with serialized objects using the
same data format as the "marshal" module.  There are functions to
write data into the serialization format, and additional functions
that can be used to read the data back.  Files used to store
marshalled data must be opened in binary mode.

Numeric values are stored with the least significant byte first.

The module supports two versions of the data format: version 0 is the
historical version, version 1 shares interned strings in the file, and
upon unmarshalling.  Version 2 uses a binary format for floating point
numbers. "Py_MARSHAL_VERSION" indicates the current file format
(currently 2).

void PyMarshal_WriteLongToFile(long value, FILE *file, int version)

   Marshal a "long" integer, *value*, to *file*.  This will only write
   the least-significant 32 bits of *value*; regardless of the size of
   the native "long" type.  *version* indicates the file format.

   This function can fail, in which case it sets the error indicator.
   Use "PyErr_Occurred()" to check for that.

void PyMarshal_WriteObjectToFile(PyObject *value, FILE *file, int version)

   Marshal a Python object, *value*, to *file*. *version* indicates
   the file format.

   This function can fail, in which case it sets the error indicator.
   Use "PyErr_Occurred()" to check for that.

PyObject *PyMarshal_WriteObjectToString(PyObject *value, int version)
    *Return value: New reference.*

   Return a bytes object containing the marshalled representation of
   *value*. *version* indicates the file format.

The following functions allow marshalled values to be read back in.

long PyMarshal_ReadLongFromFile(FILE *file)

   Return a C "long" from the data stream in a "FILE*" opened for
   reading.  Only a 32-bit value can be read in using this function,
   regardless of the native size of "long".

   On error, sets the appropriate exception ("EOFError") and returns
   "-1".

int PyMarshal_ReadShortFromFile(FILE *file)

   Return a C "short" from the data stream in a "FILE*" opened for
   reading.  Only a 16-bit value can be read in using this function,
   regardless of the native size of "short".

   On error, sets the appropriate exception ("EOFError") and returns
   "-1".

PyObject *PyMarshal_ReadObjectFromFile(FILE *file)
    *Return value: New reference.*

   Return a Python object from the data stream in a "FILE*" opened for
   reading.

   On error, sets the appropriate exception ("EOFError", "ValueError"
   or "TypeError") and returns "NULL".

PyObject *PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile(FILE *file)
    *Return value: New reference.*

   Return a Python object from the data stream in a "FILE*" opened for
   reading.  Unlike "PyMarshal_ReadObjectFromFile()", this function
   assumes that no further objects will be read from the file,
   allowing it to aggressively load file data into memory so that the
   de-serialization can operate from data in memory rather than
   reading a byte at a time from the file.  Only use these variant if
   you are certain that you won't be reading anything else from the
   file.

   On error, sets the appropriate exception ("EOFError", "ValueError"
   or "TypeError") and returns "NULL".

PyObject *PyMarshal_ReadObjectFromString(const char *data, Py_ssize_t len)
    *Return value: New reference.*

   Return a Python object from the data stream in a byte buffer
   containing *len* bytes pointed to by *data*.

   On error, sets the appropriate exception ("EOFError", "ValueError"
   or "TypeError") and returns "NULL".
