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-// Copyright (C) 2013  Davis E. King (davis@dlib.net)
-// License: Boost Software License   See LICENSE.txt for the full license.
-#ifndef DLIB_SERIALIZE_PiCKLE_Hh_
-#define DLIB_SERIALIZE_PiCKLE_Hh_
-
-#include <dlib/serialize.h>
-#include <pybind11/pybind11.h>
-#include <sstream>
-#include <dlib/vectorstream.h>
-
-template<typename T>
-py::tuple getstate(const T& item)
-{
-    using namespace dlib;
-    std::vector<char> buf;
-    buf.reserve(5000);
-    vectorstream sout(buf);
-    serialize(item, sout);
-    return py::make_tuple(py::handle(
-           PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(buf.size()?&buf[0]:0, buf.size())));
-}
-
-template<typename T>
-T setstate(py::tuple state)
-{
-    using namespace dlib;
-    if (len(state) != 1)
-    {
-        PyErr_SetObject(PyExc_ValueError,
-                        py::str("expected 1-item tuple in call to __setstate__; got {}").format(state).ptr()
-        );
-        throw py::error_already_set();
-    }
-
-    // We used to serialize by converting to a str but the boost.python routines for
-    // doing this don't work in Python 3.  You end up getting an error about invalid
-    // UTF-8 encodings.  So instead we access the python C interface directly and use
-    // bytes objects.  However, we keep the deserialization code that worked with str
-    // for backwards compatibility with previously pickled files.
-    T item;
-    py::object obj = state[0];
-    if (py::isinstance<py::str>(obj))
-    {
-        py::str data = state[0].cast<py::str>();
-        std::string temp = data;
-        std::istringstream sin(temp);
-        deserialize(item, sin);
-    }
-    else if(PyBytes_Check(py::object(state[0]).ptr()))
-    {
-        py::object obj = state[0];
-        char* data = PyBytes_AsString(obj.ptr());
-        unsigned long num = PyBytes_Size(obj.ptr());
-        std::istringstream sin(std::string(data, num));
-        deserialize(item, sin);
-    }
-    else
-    {
-        throw error("Unable to unpickle, error in input file.");
-    }
-
-    return item;
-}
-
-#endif // DLIB_SERIALIZE_PiCKLE_Hh_
-