Module codec

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Service to handle serialization and deserialization of fit objects.

Object serialization is useful for long term storage, interlanguage communication and network transmission. In all cases, the process involves an initial encode() followed by a later decode().

This module provides the following serialization classes:

CPickle
Pickle
JSON

For each serialization class we have two static methods:

encode(object) -> string
decode(string) -> object

For serial encoding we will use json. The json format is human readable and easily parsed. json itself does not define support of Inf/NaN, though some json tools support it using the native javascript values of Infinity and Nan. Various xml encodings are also possible, though somewhat more difficult to work with.