Metadata-Version: 2.1 Name: msgpack Version: 1.0.7 Summary: MessagePack serializer Author-email: Inada Naoki License: Apache 2.0 Project-URL: Homepage, https://msgpack.org/ Project-URL: Documentation, https://msgpack-python.readthedocs.io/ Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/ Project-URL: Tracker, https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/issues Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/blob/main/ChangeLog.rst Keywords: msgpack,messagepack,serializer,serialization,binary Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent Classifier: Programming Language :: Python Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License Requires-Python: >=3.8 Description-Content-Type: text/markdown License-File: COPYING # MessagePack for Python [![Build Status](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/actions/workflows/wheel.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python/actions/workflows/wheel.yml) [![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/msgpack-python/badge/?version=latest)](https://msgpack-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest) ## What's this [MessagePack](https://msgpack.org/) is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. But it's faster and smaller. This package provides CPython bindings for reading and writing MessagePack data. ## Very important notes for existing users ### PyPI package name Package name on PyPI was changed from `msgpack-python` to `msgpack` from 0.5. When upgrading from msgpack-0.4 or earlier, do `pip uninstall msgpack-python` before `pip install -U msgpack`. ### Compatibility with the old format You can use `use_bin_type=False` option to pack `bytes` object into raw type in the old msgpack spec, instead of bin type in new msgpack spec. You can unpack old msgpack format using `raw=True` option. It unpacks str (raw) type in msgpack into Python bytes. See note below for detail. ### Major breaking changes in msgpack 1.0 * Python 2 * The extension module does not support Python 2 anymore. The pure Python implementation (`msgpack.fallback`) is used for Python 2. * Packer * `use_bin_type=True` by default. bytes are encoded in bin type in msgpack. **If you are still using Python 2, you must use unicode for all string types.** You can use `use_bin_type=False` to encode into old msgpack format. * `encoding` option is removed. UTF-8 is used always. * Unpacker * `raw=False` by default. It assumes str types are valid UTF-8 string and decode them to Python str (unicode) object. * `encoding` option is removed. You can use `raw=True` to support old format. * Default value of `max_buffer_size` is changed from 0 to 100 MiB. * Default value of `strict_map_key` is changed to True to avoid hashdos. You need to pass `strict_map_key=False` if you have data which contain map keys which type is not bytes or str. ## Install ``` $ pip install msgpack ``` ### Pure Python implementation The extension module in msgpack (`msgpack._cmsgpack`) does not support Python 2 and PyPy. But msgpack provides a pure Python implementation (`msgpack.fallback`) for PyPy and Python 2. ### Windows When you can't use a binary distribution, you need to install Visual Studio or Windows SDK on Windows. Without extension, using pure Python implementation on CPython runs slowly. ## How to use NOTE: In examples below, I use `raw=False` and `use_bin_type=True` for users using msgpack < 1.0. These options are default from msgpack 1.0 so you can omit them. ### One-shot pack & unpack Use `packb` for packing and `unpackb` for unpacking. msgpack provides `dumps` and `loads` as an alias for compatibility with `json` and `pickle`. `pack` and `dump` packs to a file-like object. `unpack` and `load` unpacks from a file-like object. ```pycon >>> import msgpack >>> msgpack.packb([1, 2, 3], use_bin_type=True) '\x93\x01\x02\x03' >>> msgpack.unpackb(_, raw=False) [1, 2, 3] ``` `unpack` unpacks msgpack's array to Python's list, but can also unpack to tuple: ```pycon >>> msgpack.unpackb(b'\x93\x01\x02\x03', use_list=False, raw=False) (1, 2, 3) ``` You should always specify the `use_list` keyword argument for backward compatibility. See performance issues relating to `use_list option`_ below. Read the docstring for other options. ### Streaming unpacking `Unpacker` is a "streaming unpacker". It unpacks multiple objects from one stream (or from bytes provided through its `feed` method). ```py import msgpack from io import BytesIO buf = BytesIO() for i in range(100): buf.write(msgpack.packb(i, use_bin_type=True)) buf.seek(0) unpacker = msgpack.Unpacker(buf, raw=False) for unpacked in unpacker: print(unpacked) ``` ### Packing/unpacking of custom data type It is also possible to pack/unpack custom data types. Here is an example for `datetime.datetime`. ```py import datetime import msgpack useful_dict = { "id": 1, "created": datetime.datetime.now(), } def decode_datetime(obj): if '__datetime__' in obj: obj = datetime.datetime.strptime(obj["as_str"], "%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S.%f") return obj def encode_datetime(obj): if isinstance(obj, datetime.datetime): return {'__datetime__': True, 'as_str': obj.strftime("%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S.%f")} return obj packed_dict = msgpack.packb(useful_dict, default=encode_datetime, use_bin_type=True) this_dict_again = msgpack.unpackb(packed_dict, object_hook=decode_datetime, raw=False) ``` `Unpacker`'s `object_hook` callback receives a dict; the `object_pairs_hook` callback may instead be used to receive a list of key-value pairs. ### Extended types It is also possible to pack/unpack custom data types using the **ext** type. ```pycon >>> import msgpack >>> import array >>> def default(obj): ... if isinstance(obj, array.array) and obj.typecode == 'd': ... return msgpack.ExtType(42, obj.tostring()) ... raise TypeError("Unknown type: %r" % (obj,)) ... >>> def ext_hook(code, data): ... if code == 42: ... a = array.array('d') ... a.fromstring(data) ... return a ... return ExtType(code, data) ... >>> data = array.array('d', [1.2, 3.4]) >>> packed = msgpack.packb(data, default=default, use_bin_type=True) >>> unpacked = msgpack.unpackb(packed, ext_hook=ext_hook, raw=False) >>> data == unpacked True ``` ### Advanced unpacking control As an alternative to iteration, `Unpacker` objects provide `unpack`, `skip`, `read_array_header` and `read_map_header` methods. The former two read an entire message from the stream, respectively de-serialising and returning the result, or ignoring it. The latter two methods return the number of elements in the upcoming container, so that each element in an array, or key-value pair in a map, can be unpacked or skipped individually. ## Notes ### string and binary type Early versions of msgpack didn't distinguish string and binary types. The type for representing both string and binary types was named **raw**. You can pack into and unpack from this old spec using `use_bin_type=False` and `raw=True` options. ```pycon >>> import msgpack >>> msgpack.unpackb(msgpack.packb([b'spam', 'eggs'], use_bin_type=False), raw=True) [b'spam', b'eggs'] >>> msgpack.unpackb(msgpack.packb([b'spam', 'eggs'], use_bin_type=True), raw=False) [b'spam', 'eggs'] ``` ### ext type To use the **ext** type, pass `msgpack.ExtType` object to packer. ```pycon >>> import msgpack >>> packed = msgpack.packb(msgpack.ExtType(42, b'xyzzy')) >>> msgpack.unpackb(packed) ExtType(code=42, data='xyzzy') ``` You can use it with `default` and `ext_hook`. See below. ### Security To unpacking data received from unreliable source, msgpack provides two security options. `max_buffer_size` (default: `100*1024*1024`) limits the internal buffer size. It is used to limit the preallocated list size too. `strict_map_key` (default: `True`) limits the type of map keys to bytes and str. While msgpack spec doesn't limit the types of the map keys, there is a risk of the hashdos. If you need to support other types for map keys, use `strict_map_key=False`. ### Performance tips CPython's GC starts when growing allocated object. This means unpacking may cause useless GC. You can use `gc.disable()` when unpacking large message. List is the default sequence type of Python. But tuple is lighter than list. You can use `use_list=False` while unpacking when performance is important.