bson

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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

.. sourcecode:: bash

~ $ python setup.py install

or can use pip

.. sourcecode:: bash

~ $ pip install bson

Quick start

.. sourcecode:: 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.

.. sourcecode:: 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!"})