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.
.. code-block:: python
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/