[Baypiggies] newbie question - json as pickler

[Aahz]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
>
> Problem #2: the object encoding serializers that I've found are strictly  
> string->object and object->string.  This would seem to make a number of  
> things awkward.  Spitting out a sequence of objects as a sequence of  
> strings is easy.  However, it's looking to me as though reading that  
> sequence of strings will require parsing the incoming stream in order to  
> divide them up into chunks suitable for handing off to the deserializer.  
> This seems like it makes the serializers essentially useless.

Just serialize a list of objects.

> I feel like I must be missing something here.  Does anyone else see it?   
> Is there an obvious way to break up the byte stream?  Is there an easy  
> way to tease the standard library coder into coding arbitrary objects?

You do what pickle essentially does: serialize o.__dict__
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