pklxml 0.1.3

A human-readable and secure XML-based alternative to pickle.

Project Metadata

• Version: 0.1.3
• PyPI: Published
• File Extension: .pklxml

pklxml

pklxml, short for Python Pickle Extensible Markup Language Library, is a Python module and as a human-readable alternative to Pickle. Instead of saving data as a binary .pkl file, it saves data as an XML-based file called .pklxml. This makes it a lot more safer. The module uses the LXML module to parse .pklxml (XML) files.

The reason why I wanted to make this module is so that we (as humans) can easily what has been actually saved. I have to open .pkl files with Qt Creator to decode the binary and I (un)successfully managed to decode it.

I'm thinking of publishing this to PyPi, but maybe not so soon.

Example programme

from pklxml import dump, load

data = {'name': 'Alice', 'age': 30}
dump(data, 'data.pklxml')

loaded_data = load('data.pklxml')
print(loaded_data)

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