getting serialized data into and out of a database

[Michael Pelz Sherman]

I'm having a devil of a time getting serialized data into and out of a database (MySQL in this case) using python and MySQLdb.

I have some C code that has its own serialization/deserialization functions, which we've wrapped using SWIG.

I am able to save the serialized C structs to disk but when I try to write the exact same data to MySQL and pull it back out, I'm getting some strange results. The data comes back looking like this:

array('c', '\x01r\x01\x00\x...)

Is this a python buffer, or what? How can I access the data in there? I've tried using [1] but that doesn't seem to work.

Thanks...

- Michael



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