How to install cPickle on Python 3.4?

I tried sudo apt-get install cPickle and python3.4-cPickle but it doesn't work.

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There is no cPickle in python 3:

A common pattern in Python 2.x is to have one version of a module implemented in pure Python, with an optional accelerated version implemented as a C extension; for example, pickle and cPickle. This places the burden of importing the accelerated version and falling back on the pure Python version on each user of these modules. In Python 3.0, the accelerated versions are considered implementation details of the pure Python versions. Users should always import the standard version, which attempts to import the accelerated version and falls back to the pure Python version. The pickle / cPickle pair received this treatment.

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From the pickle module documentation:

The pickle module has an transparent optimizer (_pickle) written in C. It is used whenever available. Otherwise the pure Python implementation is used.

In python3 use:

import _pickle as cPickle

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