Colander
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An extensible package which can be used to:

- deserialize and validate a data structure composed of strings,
  mappings, and lists.

- serialize an arbitrary data structure to a data structure composed
  of strings, mappings, and lists.

It runs on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4, and on current PyPy
and PyPy3 versions.

Please see http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/colander/en/latest/
for further documentation.

See https://github.com/Pylons/colander for in-development version.