Hurring.com : Code Vault : Python : PHP-Python Serialize : v0.3b is an implementation of the PHP serialize() stuff in Python. Very practical for WordPress: often serialized structures are stored in the options that you can resolve this way - you can write tools that work directly on the database, but are written in Python. The author has done the same for Perl - you can thus push simple data structures back and forth between Python, Perl and PHP.