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. This would allow me to do something like this, conn.send(serial(myClass)); // or something like that? Thoughts?
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