455. JSON is a format that encodes objects in a string. Serialization means to convert an object into that string, and deserialization is its inverse operation (convert string -> object). When transmitting data or storing them in a file, the data are required to be byte strings, but complex objects are seldom in this format. More @Wikipedia
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