Thanks a lot. Regards,
Philippe On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:20:01 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Philippe C. Martin wrote: >> I once wrote something in C to do that, but since python usually has a >> solution for me .... > > If you use arbitrary data structures, you could use pickle or xmlrpclib > to marshal the data. If you know the data is restricted to a few > well-known data types, you could use XDR (Demo/rpc/xdr.py) or CORBA > (e.g. through fnorb.sf.net) to come up with a wire format. > > Otherwise, if you want to define your own proprietary data format, > you can probably use the struct module to generate messages according > to this format. > > However, in any case, you need to define the wire format. Once you made > a choice, Python can help implement it - but Python cannot chose a wire > format for you (although pickle comes really close, as does Dopy - > http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller/projects/dopy/) > > Regards, > Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
