to py or not to py ?

[Robert Kern]

Chandrashekhar kaushik wrote:
> pyton does allow this using cPickle , but it bloats the data like 
> anythin !!!
> for example a class containing 2 integers which i expect will be 8 bytes 
> long ..
> cPickle.dumps returns a string thats 86 bytes wide !!!! ( this is the 
> binary version protocol 1 )
> 
> anyway to improve serialization ??

Use protocol 2. Also, since it looks like you will be dealing with homogeneous 
arrays of numerical data, you should think about using numpy to store that data. 
With protocol 2, cPickle only adds 129 bytes per array no matter the size.

   http://www.scipy.org/NumPy

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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