Alternatives for pickle?

[Jeff Shannon]

Antoon Pardon wrote:

>I also thought about writing out a string that, when read
>back in and fed to eval would recreate the structure. But
>that seems to be just as insecure if not more so.
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As I understand it, this is *exactly* what pickle already does.

>So how do you serialize data in python, when you want
>a somewhat secure mechanisme. Preferably where a user
>can make a puzzle file by hand in a text editor.
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I'd agree with the earlier comment -- define your own file format, and 
write code to parse that format and instantiate the necessary objects.  
If it's hard to define something that's both effective for your 
purposes, and hard to hand-code in a text editor, then consider writing 
a puzzle-editor app that will allow GUI creation of puzzles which can be 
saved in your custom file format.

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International