[Zope3-Users] What attributes are made persistent

Stephan Richter srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Wed Feb 15 08:42:47 EST 2006


On Wednesday 15 February 2006 08:21, Peter Bengtsson wrote:
> class PersistentAnything(PersistentMapping, PersistentList,
> PersistentDict):

AAhhhh! This is so wrong! It merges two incompatible APIs: collections and 
mappings. The non-persistent equivalent to this is:

  >>> class DoEverything(set, list, dict):
  ...  pass

> Am I just trying to make it too simple?

I think you try far too hard to not understand why the persistent mechanism 
works as it does. You make your life harder than it has to be.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training


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