Project: finpack

(Pronounced thinpack) A very lightweight strict-typed message serialization package.

Installation

(via PyPi):

sudo pip install finpack

(via Github):

sudo python setup.py install

Benchmarks:

test	pack	unpack->tuple	unpack->dict	unpack->namedtuple
3 ints	0.16us	0.11us	1.37us	0.78us

Usage

import finpack

@finpack.Compile
class TestMessage(finpack.Message):
    message_id = finpack.uINT_TYPE(0)
    message_body = finpack.STRING_TYPE(1, 16)

packed = TestMessage.pack(1, 'Hello World!')
print packed
> '\x01\x00\x00\x00Hello World!\x00\x00\x00\x00'

unpacked = TestMessage.unpack(packed)
print unpacked
> (1, 'Hello World!\x00\x00\x00\x00')

print TestMessage.unpack_into_dict(packed)
> {'message_body': 'Hello World!\x00\x00\x00\x00', 'message_id': 1}

print TestMessage.unpack_inti_namedtuple(packed)
> TestMessage(message_id=1, message_body='Hello World!\x00\x00\x00\x00')