[Tutor] extracting a cPickle/pickle file from inside a zip file

[Danny Yoo]

Hi Dillup,

One other comment other than the zipfile stuff:  you might want to
consider something other than pickle format if you want
interchangeability with other tools.  JSON, for example, is pretty
well-supported in the json library:

     https://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html

and it has an interface similar to that of pickle, so it's easy to switch to it.

I recommend this instead of pickle, unless your situation favors
pickle.  JSON has a looser coupling to Python, and more importantly,
fewer security concerns.  Pickle can do some very dynamic stuff,
including eval-like behavior, which can be a worry.  See:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10282175/attacking-pythons-pickle
for example.

If you're trying to represent dictionaries of string keys and values,
that's something that JSON can handle very well.