"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 Serialization handled by a separate library (ie, pickle). Is it | possible, by design, to have serialization "internally" implemented via an | implicit ___serialize___ method? Ofcourse, you have to make this method not | overrideable (sp?). For example, the __repr__ method gives us the string | representation of a class... similarly, the __serialize__ method would give | us the "serial norm" representation of the class.
Pickle has the factored-out code common to all classes. It uses .__reduce__() for each, which has the class-specific code. | This would allow me to do something like this, | conn.send(serial(myClass)); // or something like that? I believe pickle does more than just that. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
