On 8/9/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Too true. Offhand, why not provide hooks for serializing and > > deserializing keys? > > Perhaps YAGNI? We already support pickling values (dbshelve), > and I added support for encoding/decoding strings as either > keys or values (though in a limited manner).
You don't need to go outside this thread to find a use case not covered by either of those. > In any case, somebody would have to make a specification > for that, and then somebody would have to provide an > implementation of it. It was just a suggestion. I wish this could occasionally go without saying. -j _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
