ZODB: don't like self._p_changed

[Terry Reedy]

"Thomas Guettler" <zopestoller at thomas-guettler.de> wrote in message
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> Max M schrieb:
> > Thomas Guettler wrote:
> >
> >> Max M schrieb:
> >
> >
> >>> Probably not. How should an object know if a mutable subobject
has
> >>> been changed?
> >>
> >>
> >> The method "append" could set the flag.
> >
> >
> > Then you would need to use specialized objects instead of the
built in
> > objects. That would shurely be more cumbersome than setting the
> > persistence flag?
>
> Yes, there a classes like PersistentList and PersistentMapping, but
> this means I need to change my code.
>
> Example:
>
> my_list=PersistentList()
> my_list.append(...)
>
> my_list=some_other_list[1:] # now my_list is no more a persistent
list
>
> This means, I always need to keep in mind if a list is a peristent
list
> or not. That's like setting _p_changed=1.
>
> 1. Solution:
>
> One solution could be to change the meaning of [] and {}.
> Dreaming:
>
> import list_persistance
> foo=[] # foo is now a persistent list.
>
> I don't know if this is possible.
>
>
> 2. Solution:
> Change the functions of list and mapping datatypes to set _p_changed
if
> the content was changed. This might decrease performance for
> nonpersistent application. But since there changes need to be
> implemented in the python core, they would be in C.
>
> thomas
>