Need help porting Prevayler (Java) to Python

[djw]

Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
> Prevayler is an interesting object persistence system written in Java that
> I'd like to see ported to Python. The system is simple, and the code is only
> a couple of hundred lines, so this should be relatively easy to do. I'm
> looking for people with good Java skills to help create a similar system in
> Python. Anyone interested?
> 
> Details about Prevayler can be found at the following locations.
> 
> SourceForge project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/prevayler
> 
> Prevayler website: http://www.prevayler.org/
> 
> Advogato discussion: http://www.advogato.org/article/398.html and
> http://www.advogato.org/article/479.html.
> 
> IBM article:
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/wa-objprev/index.html
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Pat
> 
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How is this system different/same from Python's pickling system? I read 
through the FAQ and some of the code, and it seems like it is just 
serializing objects to a log file... isn't this what pickle does? 
(Please excuse my rather naive question!)

Also, wouldn't you want some people who are experienced _Python_ 
programmers to do this, not Java programmers?

Just curious,

D