Installation: First we need to install phpserializer package to  python environment.

Usage:

unserialize — Creates a PHP value from a stored representation unserialize() takes a single serialized variable and converts it back into a python  value.

1)Example:Method of unserialization the data. 

>>>from phpserialize import serialize, unserialize

>>>str = serialize({‘loginip’: ‘127.0.0.1’, ‘uid’: 96, ‘loginfrom’: 4,‘logintime’: 1317200595})

>>>print str

…a:4:{s:7:”loginip”;s:9:”127.0.0.1″;s:3:”uid”;i:96;s:9:”loginfrom”;i:4;s:9: “logintime”;i:1317200595;}

>>>print unserialize(str) …{‘loginip’: ‘127.0.0.1’, ‘uid’: 96, ‘loginfrom’: 4, ‘logintime’: 1317200595}

>>> from phpserialize import *

>>> obj = dumps(“Hello World”)

>>> loads(obj) ‘Hello World’

Due to the fact that PHP doesn’t know the concept of lists, lists are serialized like hash-maps in PHP.  As a matter of fact the reverse value of a serialized list is a dict.

>>> loads(dumps(range(2))) …{0: 0, 1: 1}

If we want to have a list again, we can use the dict_to_list helper function:

>>> dict_to_list(loads(dumps(range(2)))) …[0, 1]

 

It’s also possible to convert into a tuple by using the dict_to_tuple function:

Another problem are unicode strings.  By default unicode strings are encoded to ‘utf-8’ but not decoded on unserialize.  The reason for this is that phpserialize can’t guess if we have binary or text data in the strings:

>>> loads(dumps(u’Hello W\xf6rld’), decode_strings=True)  …u’Hello W\xf6rld’  >>> loads(dumps({None: 14, 42.23: ‘foo’, True: [1, 2, 3]})) …{”: 14, 1: {0: 1, 1: 2, 2: 3}, 42: ‘foo’}

Array Serialization:

>>> from collections import OrderedDict

>>> loads(‘a:2:{s:3:”foo”;i:1;s:3:”bar”;i:2;}’,

… array_hook=OrderedDict) collections.OrderedDict([(‘foo’, 1), (‘bar’, 2)])