Thanks for the warning Dieter, but I'm managing threads/connections/sessions/POAs and a few other things already to expose ZODB objects through CORBA sessions. I wanted the _v_* attributes to live for the life of the DB Connections. Last night I found a fix for the bug that prevented me from overriding the _p_deactivate() method on Persistent objects, so I think that I will just do this: class ... def _p_deactivate(self): temp_position = self._v_position Persistent._p_deactivate(self) self._v_position = temp_position Thanks for the help though. John Dieter Maurer wrote:

John D. Heintz writes:

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I am using ZODB along with CORBA to expose peristent objects. Some of my objects have per-connection/session state. ... My initial idea is to have a _v_position attribute ... Using "_v_" attributes for session state is a very bad idea. They are thread(!) local and not session local. This means, if a following request of your user (in the same session) happens to get assigned a different thread, it will read and update a different position. Chaos is garanteed (though you will see it only, if your site is loaded).

Use a session product (-> zope.org) for session data.

Dieter

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