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- <title>Boost.Python Pickle Support</title>
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 <h1>Boost.Python Pickle Support</h1>
 
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 <p>
 The Boost Python Library supports the pickle module by emulating the
 interface implemented by Jim Fulton's ExtensionClass module that is
-included in the ZOPE distribution
-(<a href="http://www.zope.org/">http://www.zope.org/</a>).
+included in the
+<a href="http://www.zope.org/"
+>ZOPE</a>
+distribution.
 This interface is similar to that for regular Python classes as
-described in detail in the Python Library Reference for pickle:
-
-<blockquote>
-    <a href="http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-pickle.html"
-            >http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-pickle.html</a>
-</blockquote>
+described in detail in the
+<a href="http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-pickle.html"
+>Python Library Reference for pickle.</a>
 
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 <h1>The Boost.Python Pickle Interface</h1>
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 <address>
 Author: Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve, March 2001
 </address>
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