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+:mod:`pickletools` --- Tools for pickle developers.
+===================================================
+
+.. module:: pickletools
+   :synopsis: Contains extensive comments about the pickle protocols and pickle-machine
+              opcodes, as well as some useful functions.
+
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.3
+
+This module contains various constants relating to the intimate details of the
+:mod:`pickle` module, some lengthy comments about the implementation, and a few
+useful functions for analyzing pickled data.  The contents of this module are
+useful for Python core developers who are working on the :mod:`pickle` and
+:mod:`cPickle` implementations; ordinary users of the :mod:`pickle` module
+probably won't find the :mod:`pickletools` module relevant.
+
+
+.. function:: dis(pickle[, out=None, memo=None, indentlevel=4])
+
+   Outputs a symbolic disassembly of the pickle to the file-like object *out*,
+   defaulting to ``sys.stdout``.  *pickle* can be a string or a file-like object.
+   *memo* can be a Python dictionary that will be used as the pickle's memo; it can
+   be used to perform disassemblies across multiple pickles created by the same
+   pickler. Successive levels, indicated by ``MARK`` opcodes in the stream, are
+   indented by *indentlevel* spaces.
+
+
+.. function:: genops(pickle)
+
+   Provides an :term:`iterator` over all of the opcodes in a pickle, returning a
+   sequence of ``(opcode, arg, pos)`` triples.  *opcode* is an instance of an
+   :class:`OpcodeInfo` class; *arg* is the decoded value, as a Python object, of
+   the opcode's argument; *pos* is the position at which this opcode is located.
+   *pickle* can be a string or a file-like object.
+
+.. function:: optimize(picklestring)
+
+   Returns a new equivalent pickle string after eliminating unused ``PUT``
+   opcodes. The optimized pickle is shorter, takes less transmission time,
+   requires less storage space, and unpickles more efficiently.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 2.6