Pickle a Tiff object

While it is not recommended, a Tiff object can be pickled using the pickle or cPickle modules. It only saves the filename, filemode, bigtiff and the current page_number.

When loading a Tiff object the saved information is used to create a new object. Be aware that the same filemode is used. If you open a file in writing mode and pickle it, it will be opened in writing mode again. Thus overriding all written data.

Pickling is supported, so that a Tiff object can be used as a input source in a multiprocessing environment. Frameworks for multiprocessing often share data between different processes by sending pickled objects.