Alternatives for pickle?

[Irmen de Jong]

Antoon Pardon wrote:
> So how do you serialize data in python, when you want
> a somewhat secure mechanisme. Preferably where a user
> can make a puzzle file by hand in a text editor.

There's a YAML module for Python, although if I recall
correctly this module also suffers from security issues.

You could try Gnosis utils xml pickling or the xml marshaler
from the pyxml package. They're slow, but safe.

--Irmen