[Python-Dev] Broader iterable support for xmlrpclib (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at verizon.net
Wed Dec 7 09:03:42 CET 2005

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I then proposed the even wackier idea to simply allow all currently unsupported iterables (sets and arrays seem the most obvious candidates to me) to be marshalled as lists

Doesn't the appropriate conversion depend on the contract between the sender and receiver (i.e. an array of type 'c' may either be converted as list(arr) or arr.tostring() depending on the app)? Is the goal to save writing explicit conversions by presuming that most iterables aspire to be lists for transport purposes?

Raymond

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