From: Robin Stocker <robin-lists-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-06-28T04:10:54+09:00
Subject: Re: pythonchallenge level5  and pickle

Michael Tan wrote:
> hi,what is Ruby's equivalent module of the Python
> "Pickcle" module?  I am trying to use Ruby for the 
> Pythonchhallenge and I am in level 5 now but looks
> like there is no way to resolve it by Ruby because it
> relies on the Python pickle module.(level 5 url:
> http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/peak.html)

Hi,

What about using Python to load the Pickle data, serialise it to YAML 
and then load it again in Ruby?
This doesn't work if there are objects involved that aren't dictionaries 
(hashes) or lists (arrays) or other standard YAML types.

   Robin