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<dd><p>Returns the contents of this index as a <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code> object. The resulting object
will contain the same data as if this index was serialized to disk and then read back
into memory again.</p>
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<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p>This may be extremely large (many gigabytes) if the