On Jun 20, 12:19 pm, "Jonathan Fine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I want to serialise a dictionary, whose keys and values are ordinary strings > (i.e. a sequence of bytes). > > I can of course use pickle, but it has two big faults for me. > 1. It should not be used with untrusted data. > 2. I want non-Python programs to be able to read and write these > dictionaries. > > I don't want to use XML because: > 1. It is verbose. > 2. It forces other applications to load an XML parser. > > I've written, in about 80 lines, Python code that will pack and unpack (to > use the language of the struct module) such a dictionary. And then I > thought I might be reinventing the wheel. But so far I've not found > anything much like this out there. (The closest is work related to 'binary > XML' -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_XML.) > > So, what I'm looking for is something like and extension of struct that > allows dictionaries to be stored. Does anyone know of any related work? > > -- > Jonathan Fine
You could use YAML or KSON then compress the output if size is an issue. - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
