serialize a class to XML and back

[Roy Smith]

In article <51a28f42$0$15870$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>,
 Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> 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

Very cool

> Still, pickle may not be the best choice here.

Perhaps not, but lots of points for the awesomeness factor.