[ZODB-Dev] Re: [Zope-Annce] Announcement; DirectoryStorage

[Toby Dickenson]

On Saturday 25 May 2002 4:04 pm, Andy McKay wrote:

>Are the objects stored in a manner that allows easy editing using normal
>tools or is it essentially binary form?

It depends on your point of view.....

Each object revision file contains a small header of storage data, plus raw 
pickle data.

It has been designed for easy manipulation and inspection by outside tools, 
but you are definitely working at storage level, not application level.