asdlGen Reference Manual : Pickles : Pretty Printing Pickles
Previous: User Visible Interface
Next: Pickle Format Details

6.2. Pretty Printing Pickles

asdlGen --pp_pkl [ --text | (--html [--lists|--tables]) ] file.typ file.pkl type-id ...

asdlGen has an option that will dump pickles into either a simple textual format or HTML. In order to display a pickle asdlGen needs to have a description of the type environment and the name of the type in the pickle. A description of the type environment, which produced the pickle, is obtained by running asdlGen with the --typ option on the set of files that describe the modules that produced the code which produced the pickle. The resulting env.typ should be the first file provided to asdlGen after the --pp_pkl argument. The --output_file> option can be use to change the name of the resulting type environment. The file that contains the pickle comes next, and finally a list of fully qualified type identifiers that describe the pickles in the file.

Produce a type environment

% asdlGen --typ slp.asdl --output_file=slp.typ
Produce a pickle file called slp.pkl that contains Slp.exp and Slp.stm
% asdlGen --pp_pkl slp.typ slp.pkl Slp.exp Slp.stm


asdlGen Reference Manual : Pickles : Pretty Printing Pickles
Previous: User Visible Interface
Next: Pickle Format Details