Bug#777392: ITP: serpent -- simple serialization library based on ast.literal_eval()

[László Böszörményi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>

* Package name    : Serpent
  Version         : 1.8
  Upstream Author : Irmen de Jong <irmen@razorvine.net>
* URL             : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/serpent
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : simple serialization library based on ast.literal_eval()

Serpent provides ast.literal_eval() compatible object tree serialization.
It serializes an object tree into bytes (utf-8 encoded string) that can be
decoded and then passed as-is to ast.literal_eval() to rebuild it as the
original object tree.
As such it is safe to send serpent data to other machines over the network
for instance (because only 'safe' literals are encoded).