2008/11/5 Arnaud Delobelle wrote:

(or one could use given=dict(lst=lst, d=d))

This would have two advantages:

* eliminate the rist of keyword argument name collision * one could put all the 'given' objects in a dictionary and then 'pickle' expressions as needed using this method. Later pyon.loads could be passed this dictionary so that the objects can be unpickled correctly.

I think this idea is good as it would make it possible to pickle some objects that contain unpicklable objects just by declaring them as 'given'.

I think it's reasonable. I will change the interface.

Also, what happens with types? E.g.

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pyon.dumps([int, float, str])

I think it would be good if typenames were considered literals (like numbers and strings) so that the above returns '[int, float, str]' (and the same for user-defined types maybe). Yes, pyon can dump types too. One note: default rule for name resolving uses sys._getframe(1).f_globals and sys._getframe(1).f_locals. But you can change name resolver writing you own.

For example:

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class C(object): pass ... pyon.loads("[int,bool,float,C]") [<class 'int'>, <class 'bool'>, <class 'float'>, <class '__main__.C'>]

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pyon.dumps([int,bool,float,C]) '[int,bool,float,C]'

Best regards, Zaur