[Python-ideas] new pickle semantics/API (original) (raw)

Collin Winter collinw at gmail.com
Thu Jan 25 23:22:19 CET 2007

On 1/25/07, tomer filiba <tomerfiliba at gmail.com> wrote:

On 1/25/07, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote: > I believe the biggest problem with the proposal, as specified, is that > changing the semantics of getstate and setstate is a bad idea. > Add a new pair of methods and ask the twisted people what they think. > My only criticism will then be the strawman repr/unrepr.

i'll try to come up with new names... but i don't have any ideas at the moment.

The "getstate" and "setstate" names don't really work for me either, especially since setstate creates a new object, as opposed to changing the state of an existing object. Since this proposal is all about simplification, how about something like "simplify" and "expand", respectively?

Collin Winter

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