title: How to serialize Python objects in a human-readable format?
body: <p>I need to store Python structures made of lists / dictionaries, tuples into a human-readable format. The idea is like using something similar to <a href="http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">pickle</a>, but pickle is not human-friendly. Other options that come to my mind are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">YAML</a> (through <a href="http://pyyaml.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PyYAML</a> and <a href="http://www.json.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">JSON</a> (through <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">simplejson</a>) serializers.</p>
  <p>Any other option that comes to your mind?</p>