June 18, 2005
6:02 p.m.
Why this discussion of yet another serialization format? The wire-encoding for XML-RPC is quite stable, handles all the basic Python types proposed in the proto-PEP, and is highly interoperable. If performance is an issue, make sure you have a C-based accelerator module like sgmlop installed. If size is an issue, gzip it before sending it over the wire or to a file. Skip