Gizmo wrote: > Hello > I am a relative newcomer to Python, and I am studying it to understand > its design. It intrigues me. > I recently studied Serialization of classes via the pickle/cPickle > library, and I have a question. > > Why is Serialization handled by a separate library (ie, pickle). Is it > possible, by design, to have serialization "internally" implemented via > an implicit ___serialize___ method? Ofcourse, you have to make this > method not overrideable (sp?). For example, the __repr__ method gives us > the string representation of a class... similarly, the __serialize__ > method would give us the "serial norm" representation of the class. > > This would allow me to do something like this, > conn.send(serial(myClass)); // or something like that? > > Thoughts? > > > It would be quite possible to do this - it just hasn't been done, is all. I'm not quite sure what advantage you see for serial(myClass) over pickle.dumps(myClass) though.
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