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.. currentmodule:: pyarrow

.. _api.ipc:

Serialization and IPC
=====================

Inter-Process Communication
---------------------------

.. autosummary::
   :toctree: ../generated/

   ipc.open_file
   ipc.open_stream
   Message
   MessageReader
   RecordBatchFileReader
   RecordBatchFileWriter
   RecordBatchStreamReader
   RecordBatchStreamWriter
   read_message
   read_record_batch
   get_record_batch_size
   read_tensor
   write_tensor
   get_tensor_size

Serialization
-------------

.. autosummary::
   :toctree: ../generated/

   serialize
   serialize_to
   deserialize
   deserialize_components
   deserialize_from
   read_serialized
   SerializedPyObject
   SerializationContext