def dumps(*args, **kwargs): # real signature unknown
"""
Return the pickled representation of the object as a bytes object.
The optional *protocol* argument tells the pickler to use the given
protocol; supported protocols are 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. The default
protocol is 3; a backward-incompatible protocol designed for Python 3.
Specifying a negative protocol version selects the highest protocol
version supported. The higher the protocol used, the more recent the
version of Python needed to read the pickle produced.
If *fix_imports* is True and *protocol* is less than 3, pickle will
try to map the new Python 3 names to the old module names used in
Python 2, so that the pickle data stream is readable with Python 2.
"""
pass