pickle alternative

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

Time and space efficiency, and security do not have to be mutually
exclusive features of a serializer. Python does not provide, in the
standard library, a serializer which can work safely with untrusted
data which is time and space efficient. The proposed gherkin module
goes some way to achieving this. The format is simple enough to
easily write interoperable implementations across platforms.

I cannot readily check the source code because your web server listens
on port 82 (we're behind a strict firewall), so I don't know if my
following question has a reason to exist, but there we go:

Have you considered basing your module on xdrlib, which is more of a
cross-language standard?