[Zope3-Users] What attributes are made persistent

[Jean-Marc Orliaguet]

Peter Bengtsson wrote:

>On 2/16/06, Jeff Shell <eucci.group at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>One could, but it's really not worth it. It's just the laws of Python
>>and mutability and immutability :). (It took me years to understand
>>those terms. I kept associating them with 'mutable' in the "can be
>>made quiet" sense... Eventually my music brain stepped back and I went
>>"oh, MUTATE! Ahhh!". Seriously, it took me about four years to
>>understand that :).
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>Wow! I think I love you Jeff. Not only do you reply with
>non-condencending constructive advise you also confess to [past]
>weaknesses.
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good try:-)
but that's a totally different ethymology, "to mute" is to make silent, 
to tone down ("muet" in French)

"mutate" c.1374, "action of changing," from L. mutationem (nom. mutatio)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=mutate

/JM