Simple UBJSON in Python

UBJSON_ is the universally compatible format specification for binary JSON. It's pretty and simple data format and simpleubjson aims to be also the same.

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import simpleubjson ubjdata = simpleubjson.encode({'hello': 'world', 'тест': [1, 2, 3]}) ubjdata b'{Si\x08\xd1\x82\xd0\xb5\xd1\x81\xd1\x82[i\x01i\x02i\x03]SU\x05helloSi\x05world}'

:func:simpleubjson.encode function transforms Python objects into UBJSON binary string data. To decode it back to Python objects use :func:simpleubjson.decode function:

.. code-block:: python

simpleubjson.decode(ubjdata) {'hello': 'world', 'тест': [1, 2, 3]}

Moreover, you may also introspect UBJSON data via :func:simpleubjson.pprint function:

.. code-block:: python

simpleubjson.pprint(ubjdata) [{] [S] [i] [5] [hello] [S] [i] [5] [world] [S] [i] [8] [тест] [[] [i] [1] [i] [2] [i] [3] []] [}]

This representation is a bit more human friendly than traditional hexview and designed specially for UBJSON format.

Currently simpleubjson follows Draft-9 specification by default, but you may change specification version by passing spec="draft-N" argument for :func:~simpleubjson.decode, :func:~simpleubjson.encode and :func:~simpleubjson.pprint functions.

.. _UBJSON: http://ubjson.org/ .. _JSON: http://json.org/ .. _simpleubjson: http://code.google.com/p/simpleubjson/