On Tue, Jun 9, 2015, at 23:52, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > For human readable serialized data, text format protocol buffers are > > seriously underrated. (Relatedly: underdocumented, too.) > > Ironically, literal_eval is designed to process text-format protocols > using > human-readable Python syntax for common data types like int, str, and > dict.
"protocol buffers" is the name of a specific tool. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
