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An Intro to Protocol Buffers with Python

An Intro to Protocol Buffers with Python

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Mike Driscoll
Aug 29, 2023
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Protocol buffers are a data serialization format that is language agnostic. They are analogous to Python’s pickle format, but one of the advantages of protocol buffers is that multiple programming languages can use them.

For example, Protocol buffers are supported in C++, C#, Dart, Go, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, PHP, Ruby, and more in addition to Python.…

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