MessagePack
MessagePack is an excellent binary serialization format. It is very fast to serialize and deserialize, and it is space-efficient.
To get started, first import the package.
import msgpackThis library has a simple API, that nearly mirrors the API for json standard library for basic functionality.
To serialize a Python dict to a file, use the dump function.
# this code serializes a Python dictionary to a file
my_dict_to_serialize = {'a': 1, 'b': 2}
with open('my_new_serialized_data_file.msgpack', 'wb') as f:
msgpack.dump(my_dict, f)To deserialize a file, use the load function.
# this code deserializes the 'my_new_serialized_data_file.msgpack' file
with open('my_new_serialized_data_file.msgpack', 'rb') as f:
my_deserialized_dict = msgpack.load(f)To serialize a Python dict to a string, use the dumps function.
# this code serializes a Python dictionary to a string
my_dict_to_serialize = {'a': 1, 'b': 2}
my_serialized_string = msgpack.dumps(my_dict_to_serialize)To deserialize a string, use the loads function.
# this code deserializes the 'my_serialized_string' string
my_deserialized_dict = msgpack.loads(my_serialized_string)