On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:18 PM, SimonPalmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 8:11 pm, "Chris Rebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:04 PM, SimonPalmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi, I am looking for a way to convert a List of floating point numbers >> > to and from text. I am embedding it in an XML document and am looking >> > for a neat way to serialise and de-serialise a list from a text node. >> > I can easily write something to do it manually but I wondered whether >> > List had native support to go to and from text. >> >> > If not List, are there any other collections/arrays that do this? >> >> It's not really a matter of the collection, but more a matter of >> serialization format/library. >> >> If you want the serialized representation to be human-readable, use >> JSON (http://docs.python.org/library/json.html#module-json). >> If that's not a requirement, use pickle >> (http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html#module-pickle). >> Both modules can convert simple Python data, such as your list of >> floats, to a bytestream and back again. >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> -- >> Follow the path of the Iguana...http://rebertia.com >> >> >> >> > TIA >> > Simon >> > -- >> >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> >> > > I looked at pickle, but the problem is that I want my XML to be > readable by languages other than python, so it sort of precludes it. > JSON would be perfect, but I think the module only exists in 2.6, is > that right? Unfortunately I am bound to 2.4. > > It is looking more and more like I am going to have to roll my own.
The module is available as a third-party library for previous Python versions at http://www.undefined.org/python/ Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
