pasn1/README.md

PASN1
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This is a simple library for doing marshalling of python objects that
uses a profile/subset of ASN.1.  This library is not designed to be a
general ASN.1 parser, but designed to be super simple to use, and
secure.

This library support Python 3.  The git repo has a branch, python2
that maintains the latest support for Python 2.

The following python types are supported: bool, int (and long), bytes,
null (as None), float, unicode (aka str), datetime, list, set and dict.
If you need to serialize other types/instances, a coerce function maybe
provided which is required to return the above string and an object
implementing the correct methods.  See the ASN1Coder's __init__
method's doc string for more information.

ASN.1 has a number of different types of strings, but only UTF8String
is used by this library.  In order to support dict types, it uses the
Private Constructed type 0.  The contents are pairs of key value objects.
bytes is mapped to the octet string type.  The minimal encoding is used
so that the same data will be encoded as the same string, similar to the
ASN.1 DER encoding.  The class ASN1Coder is available if the dict support
is required to not be present.