pickling and endianess

[Fredrik Lundh]

Chandrashekhar Kaushik wrote:

> Thank you for the information.
> A request though.
> 
> I am actually looking to implement serialization routines in C++.
> An am facing the problem of how to tackle endianess and sizeof issues.
> 
> Could you give me a overview of how pickling is done in python ? Reading 
> pickle.py is obviously the option , but its getting daunting as i am not 
> that proficient in python :( .

wouldn't it make more sense to *use* an existing C++ serialization 
library ?  e.g.

     http://www.boost.org/libs/serialization/doc/index.html

(or at least look at that one, or one of the other libraries linked from 
that page, instead of asking Python developers to help you solve a C++ 
task.)

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