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Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:34:14 +0100
From: Alan Bell <alan@theopenlearningcentre.com>
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not at all off-topic! I have been reading all about Python and writing a 
GUI client for CouchDB in pyGTK I thought pickle would be a great way to 
store general stuff in python but it isn't quite JSON. Thanks very much 
for putting this together.

Alan

John Paulett wrote:
> I know this is slightly off-topic, but I have been working on a 
> library of serializing Python objects into JSON, called jsonpickle. 
> jsonpickle is a direct result of my desire to store complex Python 
> objects in CouchDB.
>
> The difference between this project and projects like simplejson and 
> couchdb-python's schema.py is that jsonpickle requires no upfront 
> definition of what fields to serialize or how to serialize those 
> fields.  Thus, it can easily store objects from existing modules, such 
> as feedparser.  jsonpickle acts as a wrapper for simplejson.
>
> The project is located at http://code.google.com/p/jsonpickle/ .  You 
> can find more information at http://blog.7oars.com/ .
>
> I would love to get feedback, especially if you find Python modules 
> that do not work with this library.
>
> Thanks,
> John


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