>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes: GvR> Can't you just ghostify it? That would surely raise an GvR> exception when you try to unghostify it, right? Hmm, good point. With the Berkeley storages you'd likely get a KeyError in the storage load() call. Maybe we should have a more specific POSException.UnrepentantGeorgeBaileyError? -Barry