pickling from C

[Max Khesin]

Thanks David,
btw, your book is supposed to be on its way from Amazon. I hope it comes
fast...

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"Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters" <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote in message
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> "Max Khesin" <max at cNOvSisiPonAtecMh.com> wrote previously:
> |I am exploring a possibility of having a c++ module write files in pickle
> |format to be later processed with python. How difficult is this to do?
> |(let's say all I need to write are some string-to-in-list dictionaries).
Is
> |there a project to do this somewhere?
>
> Probably not outrageously hard... but I imagine it would be even easier
> to use YAML as a format.  If you use the Syck C library (which has a
> Python binding), you can even do the reading and writing quite quickly.
> And the intermediate format is quite a bit more readable than are
> pickles (which may not be necessary, but cannot hurt).
>
> To an extent, I could recommend gnosis.xml.pickle for the same reasons.
> But other than for XML buzzword-compliance, YAML is almost always
> better (smaller data files, faster, etc).
>
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