On 5-9-2014 19:16, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Thus, ast.literal_eval() is superior to anything JSON has to offer. Incidentally, I've made a serialization library based on Python's literal expressions. It uses ast.literal_eval() to deserialize, and a bit of custom code to serialize Python objects: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/serpent Irmen