On May 28, 11:17 am, Igor Katson <descent...@gmail.com> wrote: > I pretty much understand what they do, but what's the case of using > these modules by example? Is it something like pickle, to store the data > efficiently in files?
For one it provides a mechanism for reading and writing arbitrary file formats. For example, suppose you wanted to parse a PNG image using python code. It is likely that that format is described in its specification using C data structures (I've never looked at PNG format specifically). In python you can't just read out some data and copy it directly into a data structure. You could use the struct module though. It really has nothing to do with serializing python data structures. It is (mostly) about data formats and objects defined in other languages. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
