In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Spencer wrote: > I've been looking for a method of transparent, scalable, and > human-readable object persistence...
Don't do object persistence. What is an object? It's a combination of code and data. Code structure is internal to your program--it has no business being reflected in external data that may be saved to a persistent medium, transmitted over an external channel or whatever. Otherwise when you refactor your code, that external data no longer becomes readable without major backward-compatibility hacks. Use data abstraction instead: define a high-level data structure that is independent of implementation details of your code. When you look at the major data-interchange formats in use today--such as XML, ODF, MPEG, WAV--there's a reason why none of them are built on object persistence. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
