Question

I have to deserialize a dictionary in PHP that was serialized using cPickle in Python.

In this specific case I probably could just regexp the wanted information, but is there a better way? Any extensions for PHP that would allow me to deserialize more natively the whole dictionary?

Apparently it is serialized in Python like this:

import cPickle as pickle

data = { 'user_id' : 5 }
pickled = pickle.dumps(data)
print pickled

Contents of such serialization cannot be pasted easily to here, because it contains binary data.

Answer 1

If you want to share data objects between programs written in different languages, it might be easier to serialize/deserialize using something like JSON instead. Most major programming languages have a JSON library.