[Zope] Re: Saving Pipe3 object

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 04:30 AM 8/27/99 +0200, Alexander Staubo wrote:
>The underscore prefix should be enough: Your variable can be named
>_long_R_Pipe and it won't be pickled.
>
>DC uses the _v_ prefix convention for various stuff, possibly meaning
>"value"... Who knows.

It stands for 'volatile'.  In other words, the opposite of 'persistent'.
_v_ attributes are not stored as part of an object's persistent state in
the database.  It's used for things which should only exist while the
object is loaded into memory.