marshalling data structures between perl <-> php <-> python

[Tripp Scott]

On 21/12/2001 19:11, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
>Tripp Scott <tripps81 at yahoo.com> writes:
> > aside from using XML-RPC, what python module can i use to
> > marshall data structures (possibly a combination of lists,
> > dictionaries, and scalars of ints, floats, ascii strings, and
> > null values) between these three languages? i prefer a compact,
> > common binary format rather than XML.
>
>"common"?  Well, there's pickle, but it's not very "common".  Can you
>give an example of a format you'd like?

perhaps i should say something like "is there a php/perl 
implementation of pickle, or is there a php/python 
implementation of Storable. or is there another format that 
already has a perl & php & python implementation."

t