Python xml marshalling

Question

I am learning Python, my background is Java EE. I used to use JAXB, where I can basically define a regular class, throw some annotations in there, and then use JAXB to sort the objects in xml. This means that I am not involved in creating root elements, nodes, etc., but just writing a Java class and annotating it here and there. Is there something similar for Python?

Answer 1

Here are a few:

• lxml.objectify

• gnosis.xml.objecity

• pyxser seems pretty cool

• Pickle to XML - uses Pyrenees and xml.dom.minidom

• pyxml - from xml import marshal (maybe buggy)

• Amara may be worth exploring.

Answer 2

PyXB seems to be closest to JAXB, although I haven't used it yet. I am using lxml at the moment and believe that it works well. Amara was promising, but seemed to stagnate.

Answer 3

Serialization (albeit without XML) in Python3:

 >>> import pickle >>> a=["a", "b", 234234, 55, "d"] >>> pickle.dumps(a) b'\x80\x03]q\x00(X\x01\x00\x00\x00aq\x01X\x01\x00\x00\x00bq\x02J\xfa\x92\x03\x00K7X\x01\x00\x00\x00dq\x03e.' >>> pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(a)) ['a', 'b', 234234, 55, 'd']