Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!feed.xsnews.nl!border03.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder04.ams.xsnews.nl!abp001.ams.xsnews.nl!frontend-F09-16.ams.news.kpn.nl From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: To pickle or not to pickle Organization: Decebal Computing References: <87h9rnz8yy.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <554c95df$0$12988$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> X-Face: "(y8cC@tg_12{">GF'UXTW]FHI2wMiZNrnf'1EFQ&O#$m:f#O7+7}kR,v+Pti8=Vi/Z"g^?b"E X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 13:55:15 +0200 Message-ID: <878uczz3ks.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9lwabOc2+nRXwgVi3h0eKv9ZEl4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 15 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.207.62.244 X-Trace: 1431086407 news.kpn.nl 18987 81.207.62.244@kpn/81.207.62.244:40037 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:90154 Op Friday 8 May 2015 12:54 CEST schreef Steven D'Aprano: > If your code is only going to be used by yourself, I'd just use > pickle. If you are creating an application for others to use, I > would spend the extra effort to build in support for at least > pickle, JSON and plists, and let the user decide what they prefer. Well, I put it on GitHub, so I hope it is going to be used by others also. ;-) There are other things that are more urgent at the moment, but in the future I will implement JSON and plists then. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof