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'''
A series of functions useful to serializing data beyond json or pickle
'''

import json
import bz2



def pack(pyObject):
  '''
  Serialize and zip a py object

  Using JSON rather than Pickle due to C* mailing list suggestions:
   - JSON is multi-language friendly
   - Unpickling data can lead to arbitrary code execution
  '''
  return bz2.compress(json.dumps(pyObject))



def unpack(packedData):
  '''
  Unzip and de-serialize a python object
  '''
  return json.loads(bz2.decompress(packedData))
