On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:43:28 -0600, rekkufa wrote: > I am currently building a system for serializing python objects to a > readable file-format, as well as creating python objects by parsing the > same format.
You mean like pickle? (Pardon me for telling you something you may already know, but then you may not already know it...) >>> import pickle >>> >>> # Create a recursive tuple. ... alist = [1, 2, 3] >>> atuple = (4, 5, alist) >>> alist.append(atuple) >>> >>> atuple (4, 5, [1, 2, 3, (4, 5, [...])]) >>> pickle.dumps(atuple) '(I4\nI5\n(lp0\nI1\naI2\naI3\na(I4\nI5\ng0\ntp1\na0000g1\n.' pickle can dump to files, using either text or binary protocols, and load objects back from either files or strings. I won't pretend the text protocol is exactly human readable, but perhaps the way forward is to write a post-processor to convert the output of pickle to something more human-readable, rather than writing a completely new serializer. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list