[Pythonmac-SIG] convert binary plist to xml string

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 15, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

>> Yeah, the NeXT style plists could be done too.  But the question is,
>> why bother?
>
> In case I encounter a file of this format on a non-Apple platform, of
> course.  It's particularly interesting because Safari is now storing
> web-archive files in this format (binary plist).  There's a good
> chance that those might be copied off-Apple.
>
>> The struct module sucks.
>
> In what way?  I think it works pretty well for what it is.

If "works pretty well" means that it's one of the most common sources  
of bugs in the Python standard library (that corrupt data for years  
before being found), and that it's harder to write struct based code  
than it is to write the equivalent in C, then sure.

-bob