On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:57 PM, <random...@fastmail.us> wrote: > 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.
Yes, it is. But the point is that literal_eval, JSON, and other such tools are _also_ text-format protocols that serialize to/from human readable data. I'm not sure what the advantage of protocol buffers is, but it's not like "human readable" is such a rarity. (It is still a strike against pickle.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
