title: Inserting python tuple in a MySQL database
body: <p>I need to insert a python tuple (of floats) into a MySQL database. In principle I could pickle it and insert it as a string, but that would grant me the chance only to retrieve it through python. Alternative is to serialize the tuple to XML and store the XML string.</p>
  
  <p>What solutions do you think would be also possible, with an eye toward storing other stuff (e.g. a list, or an object). Recovering it from other languages is a plus.</p>