marshalling data structures between perl <-> php <-> python

[Paul Rubin]

Tripp Scott <tripps81 at yahoo.com> writes:
> aside from using XML-RPC, what python module can i use to marshall
> data structures (possibly a combination of lists, dictionaries, and
> scalars of ints, floats, ascii strings, and null values) between these
> three languages? i prefer a compact, common binary format rather than
> XML.

XDR, maybe.