Brian, On Tuesday 30 September 2008 17:27:32 Brian Blais wrote: > On Sep 30, 2008, at 18:42 , Sebastien Binet wrote: > > yeah... Robert pointed it to me that as xmlrpc is meant for cross- > > language RPC, > > sending python objects over the wire isn't so useful, hence the > > usage of marshal > > instead of pickle. > > thanks for all of the help. My initial solution is to pickle my > object, with the text-based version of pickle, and send it across > rpc. I do this because the actual thing I am sending is a > dictionary, with lots of arrays, and other things. I'll have a look > at the format that Robert sent, because that looks useful for other > things I am doing. > > Sebastien, why is sending python objects over the wire not so > useful? it isn't useful if you don't have a python interpreter instance on the other end of the wire, ie a python program on one end and a javascript one on the other end :) (well, you can always re-engineer the pickle format to unpickle what you received, etc... it is 'just' a matter of programming)
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