Before I get too carried away with something that's probably unnecessary, please allow me to throw around some ideas. I've been looking for a method of transparent, scalable, and human-readable object persistence, and I've tried the standard lib's Shelve, Zope's ZODB, Divmod's Axiom, and others. However, while they're all useful, none satisfies all my criteria. So I started writing some toy code of my own: http://paste.plone.org/5227
All my code currently does is transparently keep track of object changes without requiring any special coding on part of the user, and a function to convert an object to a file system hierarchy of folders and files. Please, let me know what you think. Thanks, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
