In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Fine wrote: > I want to serialise a dictionary, whose keys and values are ordinary strings > (i.e. a sequence of bytes).
Maybe you can use ConfigObj_ or JSON_ to store that data. Another format mentioned in the binary XML article you've linked in your post is `ASN.1`_. And there's a secure alternative to `pickle` called cerealizer_. .. _`ASN.1`: http://pyasn1.sourceforge.net/ .. _cerealizer: http://home.gna.org/oomadness/en/cerealizer/ .. _ConfigObj: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html .. _JSON: http://www.json.org/ Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list