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# The Original Source Code is "compClust", released 2003 September 03.
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# The Original Source Code was developed by the California Institute of
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#       Authors: Diane Trout

import cPickle

def pickleObject(obj, filename, binary = 1):
  #print 'pickling [' + str(obj) + '] to file ' + filename
  handle = open(filename, 'w')
  cPickle.dump(obj, handle, binary)
  handle.close()

def unpickleObject(filename):
  print 'loading: ' + filename
  try:
    handle = open(filename, 'r')
    ds = cPickle.load(handle)
    handle.close()
  except:
    print 'could not load: ' + filename
    return 
  return ds