Re: Basic Serialization - a design decision question

2007-04-06 Thread Terry Reedy
"Gizmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | 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 S

Re: Basic Serialization - a design decision question

2007-04-06 Thread Steve Holden
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).

Re: Basic Serialization - a design decision question

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Kern
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). I

Basic Serialization - a design decision question

2007-04-06 Thread Gizmo
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,