[Python-Dev] xmlrpclib (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:35:00 -0600 

Fred> For things like this, where some manner of dispatch is needed
Fred> based on type, but the type itself doesn't provide some
Fred> appropriate method, there's a real problem associating the right
Fred> bit of code, and I'm quite torn as to the right approach to take.

Slower in some cases, but couldn't you walk up the bases chain until you pop off the top or hit a match in the dispatch dict?

For stuff like the NSString stuff, perhaps adding a registration function to the marshaller would be appropriate. Of course, there's the problem coming out the other side. Does it matter if you put in a subclass of str and get out a plain old str?

Also, xmlrpclib is built to take advantage of a number of speedup helper modules. In production usage I've found it unbearably slow if used without sgmlop, for example. I'd hate to have the default situation work and have it fail if a speedup module was added to the system.

Skip