[Zope-dev] Zope object oid's

[Greg Ward]

On 12 May 2000, Jason Spisak said:
> > oid = object._p_oid
> 
> What is this supposed to return? str() on it returns a one-character long
> string.

Try repr() on that string -- it's actually an eight-character string,
but most of the characters are zero unless you have a *lot* of objects
in your database.  I assume that it's just a 64-bit number represented
as an 8-byte string.

(Now, somebody slap me for conflating bytes and characters...sigh...)

        Greg
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