From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2005-06-28T06:08:42+09:00
Subject: Re: pythonchallenge level5  and pickle

Corey wrote:
> On Monday 27 June 2005 12:10 pm, Robin Stocker wrote:
>   
>> Michael Tan wrote:
>>     
>>> hi,what is Ruby's equivalent module of the Python
>>> "Pickcle" module?
>>>       
>> What about using Python to load the Pickle data, serialise it to YAML
>> and then load it again in Ruby?
>>
>>     
>
> There's also the ruby/python extenstion:
> http://www.goto.info.waseda.ac.jp/~fukusima/ruby/python/doc/index.html
>
>
>   
I note the date on that program is 1999, so I doubt it would work 
without modification with either a recent ruby OR a recent python...how 
extensive the changes would be is, perhaps, questionable, but expect 
there to be some.  (Also, most ruby software wasn't exactly "polished" 
in 1999.  I think that if this worked well, we'd have heard a lot more 
of it before now.)

All in all, I'd rather go with converting the python to pyrex, compiling 
the pyrex, and then importing it as a C library.  Lots of work, but I'd 
feel more certain of results.