Hello I want to serialise a dictionary, whose keys and values are ordinary strings (i.e. a sequence of bytes).
I can of course use pickle, but it has two big faults for me. 1. It should not be used with untrusted data. 2. I want non-Python programs to be able to read and write these dictionaries. I don't want to use XML because: 1. It is verbose. 2. It forces other applications to load an XML parser. I've written, in about 80 lines, Python code that will pack and unpack (to use the language of the struct module) such a dictionary. And then I thought I might be reinventing the wheel. But so far I've not found anything much like this out there. (The closest is work related to 'binary XML' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_XML.) So, what I'm looking for is something like and extension of struct that allows dictionaries to be stored. Does anyone know of any related work? -- Jonathan Fine -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
