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Name: luabins_py
Version: 1.4.0
Summary: A library to encode/decode luabins serialized data in python
Home-page: https://github.com/zsennenga/luabins_py
Author: Zach Ennenga
Author-email: astrozees@gmail.com
License: MIT License
Description: # luabins_py
        
        A simple python library for encoding and decoding [luabins](https://github.com/agladysh/luabins) formatted serialized data.
        
        ## API
        
        `def decode_luabins(stream: BytesIO) -> List[Any]`
        
        Given a file-like object (here BytesIO, but a raw file pointer should work as well), this will return the list of values decoded from the file.
        
        `def encode_luabins(values: List[Any]) -> bytes`
        
        Given a set of values, it will serialize them to bytes in the luabins format.
        
        Supported types are:
        * String
        * Int
        * Float
        * Dict
        * List
        * None
        * Bool
        
        ## Limitations
        
        In lua, arrays and maps have the same underlying representation, whereas in python, they're differentiated more. This means that you can serialize a list, but it will deserialize to a dict, where the keys are the original indexes, and there is some potential for weirdness there. 
        
        I believe this library supports the full scope of the lua data model, so this mostly crops up if you try to do some weird python stuff.
        
        
        
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