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Overview
This package implements Preserves for Python 3.x. It provides the core semantics as well as both the human-readable text syntax (a superset of JSON) and machine-oriented binary format (including canonicalization) for Preserves. It also implements Preserves Schema and Preserves Path.
- Main package API: preserves
What is Preserves?
{% include "what-is-preserves.md" %}
Mapping between Preserves values and Python values
Preserves Values are categorized in the following way:
{% include "value-grammar.md" %}
Python's strings, byte strings, integers, booleans, and double-precision floats stand directly
for their Preserves counterparts. Small wrapper classes for Float and Symbol complete the
suite of atomic types.
Python's lists and tuples correspond to Preserves Sequences, and dicts and sets to
Dictionary and Set values, respectively. Preserves Records are represented by a Record
class. Finally, embedded values are represented by a small Embedded wrapper class.