[Python-ideas] An idea for a new pickling tool

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

> PyYAML ( http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML ) is a full implementation of
> the YAML standard.  It uses the YAML's application-specific tags and
> Python's own copy/reduce logic to provide the same power as pickle itself.
>
> Kwalify ( http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kwalify/ruby/users-guide.01.html )
> is a schema validator written in Ruby and Java.  It defines a
> YAML/JSON based schema definition for enforcing tight constraints
> on incoming data.
>

+1 on the general idea.  I abandoned pickle for JSON/YAML long ago.

To be useful, wouldn't a schema validator have to be built-in to the YAML
parser?

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Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.
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