[Zope-dev] Unique and Contant object IDs

[Steve Waterbury]

Ty Sarna wrote:

> Unfortunately there are a lot of things that Zope just can't do because
> there is no way to get a persistent "ticket" for an object that can be
> handed out to some external system, and then later redeemed for the
> (properly wrapped) object. Pathnames are not useful, because they don't
> last for the object's lifetime.

Hmmm ... what you describe sounds a lot like an ILU "string 
binding handle" -- see

http://www-db.stanford.edu/~testbed/ilu/ilu20doc/manual_1.html#SEC10

ILU does have a Python binding, and I've been thinking that ILU 
and Zope might have a lot of potential if used together ... it 
could make Zope "multi-lingual" .... :^)  Has anyone thought of 
doing anything with the two together?  

Cheers,
-- Steve.

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