[ZODB-Dev] Object indexing/sorting

[Peter Schuller]

Hello,

When it comes to dealing with lists of objects in bulk, and either searching 
for objects or listing them in a sorted fashion, what do people use? There is 
the ZCatalog for Zope, but what about regular ZODB (but non-Zope) objects? 
Are there existing classes that help with this?

For example: Suppose one has some kind of system that maintains user accounts. 
While the relationship of those accounts to other objects are automatically 
taken care of by object references, one needs a way to find an account with a 
certain ID, or search for accounts whose names contain some substring, or 
produce sorted account listings.

Is there something like ZCatalog that is more generic?

Thanks!

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