[Python-ideas] Adding `Unpicklable` to the `collections` module

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Nov 28 11:31:27 CET 2010


Le dimanche 28 novembre 2010 à 05:24 -0500, Scott Dial a écrit :
> On 11/28/2010 4:11 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:31:02 -0500
> > Scott Dial <scott+python-ideas at scottdial.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On 11/23/2010 6:32 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> >>> Nonpickleable?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Ephemeral?
> >>
> >> As an added bonus, twisted already uses this terminology, see:
> >> twisted.persisted.styles.Ephemeral.
> > 
> > Twisted has a taste for "smart" obscure names (can you guess what
> > Avatar and Portal are for?),
> 
> "pickle" is an ironic context to complain about "smart" obscure names.
> Anyways, yes, I do know what those classes are, but I have used them
> before.
> Analogously, I suspect that is also the only reason why
> "Nonpickleable" seems like an "obvious" choice to you.

Nonpickleable (spelling and casing notwithstanding) quite obviously
means "which can't be pickled". I'm not sure what you're arguing about,
or if you're just arguing for the sake of having an argument :)

Regards

Antoine.





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