[Zope] SESSION updates don't always take

[Chris McDonough]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 16:59, Chris Kratz wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 March 2005 03:42 pm, Chris McDonough wrote:
> > Your hunch is entirely correct.  This behavior is actually documented
> > within http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/Sessions.stx in the section
> > entitled "mutable data stored within session objects".  This isn't
> > really a general sessioning issue, it's more of a ZODB issue (which
> > sessions use "under the hood").
> 
> Thanks for the response Chris.  It's nice to know that it's not a bug, or at 
> least it is a documented bug.  It's just unfortunate that it works most of 
> the time such as during development.  I don't like gremlins.  Ah well, 
> perhaps others in the list can learn from my experience.

Yup, this is a common issue that bites many people when they do ZODB
programming.  For better or worse, we've made the scripter into a ZODB
programmer via offering sessions.