[Chris Withers] >>> First question, would you mind if I added oid_unrepr to ZODB.utils? I
[Dieter Maurer] >> Why do you not like "p64" (which is already there)? [Chris] > If that's the case, then great :-) > > I was just asking 'cos I couldn't find he functionality anywhere, You found ZODB.utils, which was a sensible place to look. I don't really understand how you found ZODB.utils but didn't manage to find p64, because p64 is the first function in the file. > I guess p64 needs documenting, I think its docstring is reasonably clear: def p64(v): """Pack an integer or long into a 8-byte string""" In addition to that, it would be helpful to have a tutorial overview "somewhere" explaining that FileStorage oids are 8-byte strings. I don't know where to put that so that people would find it, though. For example, where would you have found it? > and maybe a better name? Many ZODB users already know this, and there are references to p64 on user web pages. For example, http://www.zopezone.com/discussions/general/00000168 shows how to do what you started out to do: >>> from Zope.Startup.run import configure;configure('zope-8000/zope.conf') >>> from Zope import app; root = app() >>> from ZODB.utils import p64 >>> o = root._p_jar[p64(0x277FEL)] >>> o OOBucket([('566', -1920968609), ...]) I don't want to break pages like that, so the current name has to remain. It would be possible to add an alias. I'm -0 on that (would violate TOOWTDI in exchange for ... well, not sure it would really help anyone anyway). _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev