PHP Serialize for Python

phpserialize is a Python library that ports the `serialize` and `unserialize` functions of PHP, allowing Python applications to encode and decode data in PHP's native serialization format. It implements the standard Python serialization interface, providing `dumps` and `loads` functions. The current version is 1.3, with the last update in 2012, making it in a maintenance phase rather than actively developed, though it officially supports Python 3.