[Python-Dev] serializing Python as XML

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Greg Wilson writes:
 > Hi, everyone.  One of the Software Carpentry designers has asked whether a
 > package exists to serialize Python data structures as XML, so that lists
 > of dictionaries of tuples of etc. can be exchanged with other XML-aware
 > tools.  Does this exist, even in pre-release form?  If not, I'd like to
 > hear from anyone who's already done any thinking in this direction.

  There are at least two implementations; I'm not sure of their exact
status.
  The PyXML contains something called xml.marshal, written by Andrew
Kuchling.  I've also seen something called Python xml_objectify (I
think) announced on Freshmeat.net.


  -Fred

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