[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope-ZEO] How to get rid of the cPickle and asyncore dependency hassles hassles

[Jim Fulton]

Toby Dickenson wrote:
> 
> [cc to zope-dev.]
> 
> > > Ive been using Zope only with Python 2.0 recently.
> >
> > That's great to hear. I'm frankly a bit surprised that
> > this works.
> 
> 2.0 is a suprisingly conservative upgrade from 1.5.2
> 
> > Did you have to make many changes to Zope?
> 
> All my critical patches are already merged into the Zope cvs, or the Python
> cvs ;-)
> 
> There are also some non-critical bug fixes related to Unicode awareness,
> bundled up with my other Unicode-In-Zope patches at
> http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/wstring. These mostly relate to the fact
> that Zope does not defend against objects that raise exceptions when
> converted to a string using str() - and Unicode objects do this frequently.
> 
> (At the moment these extra patches are not 1.5.2 compatible... Ill work on
> this if DC feel the need for a transition period during which Zope supports
> both 1.5.2 and 2.0.)
> 
> > I heard that ExtensionClass didn't work with Python 2.0.
> 
> It looks like a little work is needed to support 2.0's garbage collection of
> cyclic trash - but thats not enabled by default. Apart from that, everything
> works very well. (In some ways, better than 1.5.2)

Wow! That's swesome.  I'll get back to you on some of this.

Jim

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