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Method to serialize the contents of data structures in Python
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| def serializeFields(data): | |
| try: | |
| it = iter(data) | |
| except TypeError as terr: | |
| return unicode(data) | |
| if type(it) == type(iter([])): | |
| l = [] | |
| for e in it: | |
| l.append(serializeFields(e)) | |
| return l | |
| elif type(it) == type(iter({})): | |
| d = {} | |
| for k in it: | |
| d[k] = serializeFields(data[k]) | |
| return d | |
| # elif ... tuples? sets? | |
| return unicode(data) |
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