bson

Independent BSON codec for Python that doesn't depend on MongoDB. The bson ObjectId implementation is forked from the PyMongo project, licensed under the Version 2.0 Apache License.

Installation

bash

~ $ python setup.py install

or can use pip

bash

~ $ pip install bson

Quick start

python

>>> import bson >>> a = bson.dumps({"A":[1,2,3,4,5,"6", u"7", {"C":u"DS"}]}) >>> b = bson.loads(a) >>> b {'A': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, '6', u'7', {'C': u'DS'}]}

Sending and receiving BSON objects to and from network sockets.

python

>>> from gevent import monkey, socket >>> monkey.patch_all() >>> >>> import bson >>> bson.patch_socket() >>> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) >>> s.connect(("127.0.0.1", 12345)) >>> s.sendobj({u"message" : "hello!"})