Usage

The Flunn API is really simple and inspired by existing Python serialisation modules like json and pickle. The flunn module has four methods called dumps, dump, loads and load, where dumps will return the serialised input as bytes string, while dump will write the serialised input to a file descriptor. The same applies to loads and load.

>>> flunn.dumps([1, [2, 3]])
b'\x82\x01\x82\x02\x03'
>>> flunn.loads(b'\x82\x01\x82\x02\x03')
[1, [2, 3]]

Furthermore, Flunn supports generators and other iterables as input for streaming support:

>>> flunn.dumps(range(5))
b'\x9f\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\xff'
>>> flunn.loads(b'\x9f\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\xff')
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]

Or to generate a map using an iterable:

>>> flunn.dumps(flunn.mapping(((a, a) for a in range(5))))
b'\xbf\x00\x00\x01\x01\x02\x02\x03\x03\x04\x04\xff'
>>> flunn.loads(b'\xbf\x00\x00\x01\x01\x02\x02\x03\x03\x04\x04\xff')
{0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3, 4: 4}

Copyright / License

© 2015 Sokolov Yura aka funny_falcon © 2013 Fritz Conrad Grimpen

The code is licensed under the MIT license, provided in the COPYING file of the Flunn distribution.