QPack
QPack is a fast and efficient serialization format like MessagePack. One key difference is flexible map and array support which allows to write directly to a qpack buffer without the need to know the size for the map or array beforehand.
Installation
From PyPI (recommend)
pip install qpack
From source code
python setup.py install
Pack
qpack.packb(object)
Unpack
Unpack serialized data. When decode is left None, each string will be returned as bytes.
qpack.unpackb(qp, decode=None, ignore_decode_errors=False, use_tuples=False)
Example
import qpack
# define some test data
data = {'name': 'Iris', 'age': 9}
# serialize into qpack format
qp = qpack.packb(data)
# unpack the serialized data
unpacked = qpack.unpackb(qp, decode='utf-8')
# left see what we've got...
print(unpacked) # {'name': 'Iris', 'age': 3}