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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Scott Dial
<scott+python-ideas at scottdial.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> But, next you are gonna want a "NonMarshalable" and "NonJSONable" and
> "NonBananaable" and "NonJellyable" and every other version of
> persistence. Or, you pick a name that describes the property that you
> really want to describe (e.g., ephemeral).

I see your point but I still veto ephemeral -- as a non-native English
speaker with a limited vocabulary it is too obscure for me (isn't it
something to do with astrology? :-).

Antoine is channeling me well today. :-)

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