Take the 2-minute tour ×  I would like to read and write to some
save files with a special format. The extent of my current
capabilities, however, would be to compile the go source and
then call it with Python and return JSON.  Is there a better way
to communicate between GO! and Python?  share|improve this
question What is wrong with json? –  Burhan Khalid Sep 11 '12 at
4:08 @BurhanKhalid, It would have to be parsed? I was just
wondering if there was a better way. –  mowwwalker Sep 11 '12 at
4:13 Python's json module will do all the work of writing and
parsing json files, nothing to it. –  alexis Sep 11 '12 at 13:38
any format you use will have to be parsed. Some parse faster
than others but json is a perfectly respectable format for data
interchange. –  Jeremy Wall Sep 11 '12 at 22:13 JSON-RPC over
UDS –  tomwilde Sep 12 '12 at 7:46 show 1 more comment  2
Answers  Go has a gob format for serializing data, but some
mailing list discussion on golang-nuts suggests that it's not a
good choice for communicating