Protocyt

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Protocyt allows you to use fast serialization/deserialization functionality for your classes. Using protobuf format desription files it creates python extension modules (*.pyd or *.so) with class for each message in description. You can directly use this classes on derive your classes from them.

Protobuf is the best instrument when you need to store and load objects with fixed internal structure as fast as possible. Usually when you need to implement complicated network protocol or to store custom objects into database.

You can change your protocol definition and generated modules will safely skip obsolete fields. So you can store data in wide representation and read it in different views. If data is not consistent or not much declared protocol, loading will cause DecodeError. This DecodeError will contains description of problem and number of byte in input stream when decoding fails.