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@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Serializing Django objects
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Django's serialization framework provides a mechanism for "translating" Django
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-objects into other formats. Usually these other formats will be text-based and
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-used for sending Django objects over a wire, but it's possible for a
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+models into other formats. Usually these other formats will be text-based and
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+used for sending Django data over a wire, but it's possible for a
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serializer to handle any format (text-based or not).
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.. seealso::
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@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ At the highest level, serializing data is a very simple operation::
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The arguments to the ``serialize`` function are the format to serialize the data
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to (see `Serialization formats`_) and a
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:class:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet` to serialize. (Actually, the second
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-argument can be any iterator that yields Django objects, but it'll almost
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-always be a QuerySet).
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+argument can be any iterator that yields Django model instances, but it'll
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+almost always be a QuerySet).
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You can also use a serializer object directly::
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