[Zope-dev] improving the utility and adapter lookup APIs

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:29:25PM -0500, Tres Seaver wrote:
> Matthew Wilkes wrote:
> > On 2009-11-25, at 1601, Benji York wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm not sure I like the following suggestion better than the above,
> >> but throwing it out there anyway:
> >>
> >> Multiadapter:
> >>
> >> IFoo((x,y))
> > 
> > I know it's probably a spurious use case, but what if I want to adapt  
> > a tuple?
> 
> I would agree that its completely spurious:  I can't imagine wanting
> that.  I prefer the regularity in Benji's spelling over satisfying a
> non-existing usecase.

I am, in fact, adapting tuples for what I consider to be a good reason
(pretty-printing arbitrary objects) in zodbbrowser.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~zodbbrowser-dev/zodbbrowser/trunk/annotate/head:/src/zodbbrowser/value.py

Marius Gedminas
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