thanks for all of the help. My initial solution is to pickle my object,
with the text-based version of pickle, and send it across rpc. I do this
because the actual thing I am sending is a dictionary, with lots of arrays,
and other things. I'll have a look at the format that Robert sent, because
that looks useful for other things I am doing.
Did you try to send binary pickles (protocol=2)? Perhaps it works,
give a try! Of course, you need the client and server machines having
the same arch.
I tried that first, and marshal doesn't handle binary streams, so that's when I tried the text version. I'm not sending a lot of info, so it's not that big of a deal. Most of the time is spent on the simulation on the other end.