Re: [pygame] Networking library

[Chris McCormick <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 04:44:30PM -0700, Patrick Mullen wrote:
> Python2.6 comes with json.  Other than that, it is a small thing to include.
> 
> The library seems to be built around json, so removing it as a
> dependency doesn't make much sense.

Actually I don't think it would be a huge job to change the serialisation
method to something else, optionally. I'll have a look it and see. My only
concern is about security - I chose JSON serialisation over something like
pickling because there's no way a client can inject malicious code using JSON.
I wonder if there's some other safe, built-in, pythonic way of serialising data
structures that I don't know about?

> The whiteboard example is very impressive!  It looks a lot easier to
> start working with than twisted.

Thanks! My intention was for it to be extremely simple, and lightweight, which
Twisted isn't (/me dons his flame retardant suit). Part of being lightweight
and simple is probably removing dependencies on unneccesary third party
libraries, so I think I will have a crack at removing the simplejson
requirement, and also making the built-in JSON of 2.6 useable.

Best,

Chris.

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