is there a safe marshaler?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.2405.1108144870.22381.python-list at python.org>,
Skip Montanaro  <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>    Carl> but can't effbot's fast cElementree be used for PYROs XML_PICKLE
>    Carl> and would it be safe and fast enough?
>
>It's not clear to me that if marshal is unsafe how XML could be safe.  In
>this context they are both just serializations of basic Python data
>structures.

The difference is that parsing XML -- even badly malformed -- won't
crash Python.
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