On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Kent Tenney <kten...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any interest in uA default format being text instead of pickle? > No. The code that reads and writes uA's to .leo files is mind-boggling complex. Any change would constitute a major change to Leo's file format. The benefits are tiny because of the str_ convention, discussed here <http://leoeditor.com/customizing.html#adding-extensible-attributes-to-nodes-and-leo-files> : Leo does *not* pickle members of inner dictionaries whose name (key) starts with str_. The values of such members should be a Python string. This convention allows strings to appear in .leo files in a more readable format. Any plugin can use str_ keys in their inner dictionaries, even if they do not do so at present. Transitioning to string keys is easy. The plugin would first look for new-style keys (starting with str). If none are found, the plugin could look for old keys. Also, the plugin could look for a str_version key, and use the presence or absence of the key to look for old-style or new-style keys. Automatic pickling of uA's has some advantages. Any object that can be pickled can be "reconstituted" automatically. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
