Read and write Ruby-marshalled data. Only basics Ruby data types can be read and written:

• float,
• bool,
• int,
• str (mapped to unicode in Python 2),
• nil (mapped to None in Python),
• array (mapped to list),
• hash (mapped to dict),
• symbols and other classes are mapped to specific Python classes.

pip install rubymarshal

from rubymarshal.reader import loads, load
from rubymarshal.writer import writes, write
with open('my_file', 'rb') as fd:
    content = load(fd)
with open('my_file', 'wb') as fd:
    write(fd, my_object)
loads(b"\x04\bi\xfe\x00\xff")
writes(-256)

Code is on github: https://github.com/d9pouces/RubyMarshal Documentation is on readthedocs: http://rubymarshal.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ Tests are on travis-ci: https://travis-ci.org/d9pouces/RubyMarshal