Hi all, I'm in the course of low-level wrapping the ODBC api. Just in case you wonder: I know of mxODBC and pyodbc, they don't fit my needs as well license-wise as technically (I want better metadata access, thread-safety etc.). I'll use my wrapper from within Zope. There will be some python wrapper around the low-level stuff and I wonder if it makes sense to add pickle-support to that python wrapper. The ODBC api is object-based and exhibits four object types: environment, connection, statement and descriptor objects each of which has a set of methods and properties. Pickle-wise I'm not so concerned about persistence across shutdown/restart cycles (I think it's reasonable to re-create your ODBC environments, connections etc. after restart) but rather about consistency across ZEO-instances. My lack of experience makes me ask here for expert advise. 1) Does the ZEO scenario demand some pickle support, e. g. to use consitent environments/connections etc. across ZEO instances or do I just misunderstand ZEO? 2) If pickle support is a good idea: What scope would you find reasonable? I. e. I can imagine that persistence of environments/descriptors could be useful while persistent connections/statements could cause more trouble than they are worth. As you can see the whole thing isn't very clear to me and so I'd appreciate your comments. TIA, andreas