colander 0.2

A simple schema-based serialization and deserialization library

Colander

An extensible package which can be used to:

• deserialize and validate a data structure composed of strings, mappings, and lists.

• serialize an arbitrary data structure to a data structure composed of strings, mappings, and lists.

Please see http://docs.repoze.org/colander for further documentation.

Changes

0.2 (2010-03-23)

• Make nodetype overrideable.

• Add __getitem__ to SchemaNode.

• Fix OneOf message.

• Capitalize node titles.

• Deal with empty strings in String, Boolean, and Float types.

• Introduce description; make title the same as name.

• Remove copy method from schemanode.

• Allow schema nodes to have titles.

• The term “structure” is too overloaded to use for schema purposes: structure -> schema node.

• Make Sequence more like Tuple and Mapping (it uses a substructure rather than a structure parameter to denote its type).

• Add __repr__ and copy methods to structure.

• Add accept_scalar flag to Sequence.

0.1 (2010-03-14)

• Initial release.