serialize a class to XML and back

[Irmen de Jong]

On 26-5-2013 22:48, Roy Smith wrote:

> The advantage of pickle over json is that pickle can serialize many 
> types of objects that json can't.  The other side of the coin is that 
> pickle is python-specific, so if you think you'll ever need to read your 
> data from other languages, pickle is right out.

That is not entirely true :)  I've written a pickle implementation for Java and .NET
that is almost feature complete; it is part of http://pythonhosted.org/Pyro4/pyrolite.html

Still, pickle may not be the best choice here.

Cheers
Irmen