deadlylaid / bson

Independent BSON codec for Python that doesn't depend on MongoDB.

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

>>> 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.

>>> 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!"})