[Zope-dev] Zope object oid's

[Jason Spisak]

Greg Ward writes:

> 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.
> 

That's what was needed.  Thanks.

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

Let him who has never conflated make the first slap. ;)

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