In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Carl> but can't effbot's fast cElementree be used for PYROs XML_PICKLE > Carl> and would it be safe and fast enough? > >It's not clear to me that if marshal is unsafe how XML could be safe. In >this context they are both just serializations of basic Python data >structures.
The difference is that parsing XML -- even badly malformed -- won't crash Python. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code -- not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
