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

~ $ python setup.py install

or can use pip

~ $ pip install bson

Quick start

>>>importbson>>>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.

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