On 26-5-2013 22:48, Roy Smith wrote: > The advantage of pickle over json is that pickle can serialize many > types of objects that json can't. The other side of the coin is that > pickle is python-specific, so if you think you'll ever need to read your > data from other languages, pickle is right out.
That is not entirely true :) I've written a pickle implementation for Java and .NET that is almost feature complete; it is part of http://pythonhosted.org/Pyro4/pyrolite.html Still, pickle may not be the best choice here. Cheers Irmen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
