pickle alternative

[Paul Rubin]

simonwittber at gmail.com writes:
> > See also bug# 471893 where jhylton suggests a PEP.  Something really
> > ought to be done about this.
> 
> I know this, you know this... I don't understand why the suggestion is
> meeting so much resistance. This is something I needed for a real world
> system which moves lots of data around to untrusted clients. Surely
> other people have had similar needs? Pickle and xmlrpclib simply are
> not up to the task, but, perhaps Joe Programmer is content to use a
> pickle, and not care for the security issues.

I don't think there's serious objection to a PEP, but I don't read
python-dev.  Maybe there was objection to some specific technical
point in your PEP.  Why don't you post it here?