[Python-ideas] An idea for a new pickling tool

[Jeremiah Dodds]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Josiah Carlson <josiah.carlson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Leonardo Santagada <santagada at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > For starters I want to say that this is a great idea overall but why not:
> >
> > On Apr 21, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> >
> >> * YAML is a superset of JSON, so the schema validation also works
> equally
> >> well with JSON encoded data.
> >
> >
> > With the already existing fast json serializers (simplejson) why not use
> > JSON instead of YAML? I like the YAML language, but JSON serializers
> exists
> > for many more languages and are usually much more used than YAML ones.
>
> +1 for json.  I've had bad luck with yaml in the past, but only have
> good things to say about json.
>
>
Another +1 for json here. I use it to communicate with python and perl on a
pretty regular basis, and never have a problem with it. It's a dead simple
serialization protocol, very hard to get wrong, and very interoperable.
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