marshalling python data structures in php

[Sridhar R]

Hi,

I have written in network project in python. the client sends a
dictionary by pickling it over the socket and the server unpickles it.
I also need a webclient for this. So I am wondering how to create
python dictionary in PHP and pickle it and send it to the server
running in python.

any thoughts?

[Jon-Pierre Gentil]

Re: marshalling python data structures in php

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Sridhar R wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I have written in network project in python. the client sends a
| dictionary by pickling it over the socket and the server unpickles it.
| I also need a webclient for this. So I am wondering how to create
| python dictionary in PHP and pickle it and send it to the server
| running in python.
|
| any thoughts?

Sounds utterly hard. You'd have to implement the Pickle module in PHP
and devise a way to convert a PHP associative array into a pickled
Python dictionary.

Instead what I would suggest that you do is to write your webclient in
Python using mod_python/Zope/Twisted.Web/etc...

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[Diez B. Roggisch]

Re: marshalling python data structures in php

> any thoughts?

Use xmlrpc or soap or corba - these are designed for inter-language
operations. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.

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Diez B. Roggisch