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restructured library manual accordiung to functional group

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The \code{pickle} module implements a basic but powerful algorithm for
``pickling'' (a.k.a.\ serializing, marshalling or flattening) nearly
arbitrary Python objects. This is a more primitive notion than
arbitrary Python objects. This is the act of converting objects to a
stream of bytes (and back: ``unpickling'').
This is a more primitive notion than
persistency --- although \code{pickle} reads and writes file objects,
it does not handle the issue of naming persistent objects, nor the
(even more complicated) area of concurrent access to persistent
@ -54,7 +56,8 @@ advantage of using printable \ASCII{} (and of some other characteristics
of \code{pickle}'s representation) is that for debugging or recovery
purposes it is possible for a human to read the pickled file with a
standard text editor. (I could have gone a step further and used a
notation like S-expressions, but the parser would have been
notation like S-expressions, but the parser
(currently written in Python) would have been
considerably more complicated and slower, and the files would probably
have become much larger.)