In article <pan.2013.05.10.16.59.31.512...@nowhere.com>, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> However: there are situations where it is useful to be able to separate > the simple task of creating an object from more invasive actions such as > system calls. Particularly in multi-threaded or real-time code (although > the latter is a non-starter in Python for many other reasons). Sure. I can serialize a path name. I can't serialize an open file descriptor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
