[Zope-Coders] removing more Zope decoys

[Toby Dickenson]

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 1:01 pm, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

>   JH> xmlrpclib.py is now in the Python std library, so it should go.

The Zope version of xmlrpclib is not exactly the same as the standard pyt=
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version. The differences relate to marshalling python types into xml: The=
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standard python version cant marshal a python 'None'. Also there are some=
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patches around that have special handling for some Zope classes: DateTime=
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File, Image. (this patch missed the deadline for 2.6).

It would be nice if the standard xmlrpclib was flexible enough to support=
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this. Until then I think we need the duplication (sadly)