This is very welcome, but I hope Google fixes this problem in the official protobuf distribution. It looks like protobuf 2.4.0 has experimental support for bac

This is very welcome, but I hope Google fixes this problem in the official protobuf distribution. It looks like protobuf 2.4.0 has experimental support for backing Python protocol buffers with C++ via the PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION environment variable: http://protobuf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/CHANGES.txt http://protobuf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/CHANGES.txt