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# alibi.saving

## Constants

### `TYPE_CHECKING`

```python
TYPE_CHECKING: bool = False
```

bool(x) -> bool

Returns True when the argument x is true, False otherwise. The builtins True and False are the only two instances of the class bool. The class bool is a subclass of the class int, and cannot be subclassed.

### `NOT_SUPPORTED`

```python
NOT_SUPPORTED: list = ['DistributedAnchorTabular', 'CEM', 'Counterfactual', 'CounterfactualProto']
```

Built-in mutable sequence.

If no argument is given, the constructor creates a new empty list. The argument must be an iterable if specified.

## `NumpyEncoder`

*Inherits from:* `JSONEncoder`

### Methods

#### `default`

```python
default(obj)
```

| Name  | Type | Default | Description |
| ----- | ---- | ------- | ----------- |
| `obj` |      |         |             |

## Functions

### `load_explainer`

```python
load_explainer(path: Union[str, os.PathLike], predictor) -> Explainer
```

Load an explainer from disk.

| Name        | Type                      | Default | Description                                                               |
| ----------- | ------------------------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `path`      | `Union[str, os.PathLike]` |         | Path to a directory containing the saved explainer.                       |
| `predictor` |                           |         | Model or prediction function used to originally initialize the explainer. |

**Returns**

* Type: `Explainer`

### `save_explainer`

```python
save_explainer(explainer: Explainer, path: Union[str, os.PathLike]) -> None
```

Save an explainer to disk. Uses the `dill` module.

| Name        | Type                      | Default | Description                                                                 |
| ----------- | ------------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `explainer` | `Explainer`               |         | Explainer instance to save to disk.                                         |
| `path`      | `Union[str, os.PathLike]` |         | Path to a directory. A new directory will be created if one does not exist. |

**Returns**

* Type: `None`