On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Victor Manuel Quiñones Victor <quinonesvic...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to serialize some objects and save them into the database. What > library would you suggest for it?
there are a few options, each with different pros/cons. roughly in order of personal preference: JSON: pro: works in any language, easy to read con: not the fastest, not the most compact pickle: pro: quite fast, easy and very transparent on Python con: python only messagepack: pro: very fast, very compact con: depends on a not-so-common library glob: pro: very fast, very compact con: go only protocolbuffers: pro: quite fast, very compact, multi-version compatibility con: not widespread, limited language support tnetstrings: pro: quite fast, compact, somewhat readable con: not widespread yaml: pro: simple, readable, readable on many languages con: not compact XML: pro: many utilities, many languages con: no need to enumerate... in practce, i'd say: if it's absolutely, definitely python only, and there's some real speed/size concerns, use pickle. for almost everything else, JSON -- Javier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
