Re: [Boost-users] Boost.python serialization

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-29 18:28:17

"Drumheller, Michael" <michael.drumheller_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Thank you for the help.  I have seen that link (the one you supplied)
> before, but I posted my question because that link in particular does
> not mention the words "Boost.Serialization" or "Archive" at all.  

That's because the Boost Serialization library is unrelated.

> I suppose what I was really getting at, and was probably not very
> clear about (sorry :| ) was whether the specific approach (by
> N. Becker) of using a stringstream wrapped with a
> boost::archive::binary_oarchive is a standard idiom.

"Standard?"

> (Basically, I would have thought that "python pickle boost::archive"
> would be a million-hit Google query, but it's only about a dozen.  I
> find that weird.  Do people just not serialize their C++ extensions
> very often?)

Yes, they do it very often.  There's usually no need to touch
Boost.Serialization in order to do so, though.

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