[Tutor] cPickle/pickle help

[b. nyec]

Hello, 

I'm not sure if this is the correct list to post this on, but i was wondering i someone could help me. I'm wondering if there exists a pickler example written in C ? I understand the cPickle module was written in C, but looking at it seems daunting to create sample code from it. I found a post on this list here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail//tutor/2011-September/085414.html that shows an example of pickling data to disk. I'm wondering if that's pickle or cPickle (protocol version?) ?? What i'm trying to do is write a client in C that will send pickled data to a server written in python for unpicking over TCP. I'm still learning this stuff (pickle/serialization) as i go (i have zero knowledge of python), so apologies if i'm not making any sense as i've had trouble finding help on other places when explaining what i'm trying to accomplish. If this is off topic, feel free to e-mail me privately and i could explain in more detail without adding noise to
 this list. 

Thanks for any help.