Clytie Siddall wrote: > I am amused and somewhat puzzled by this string in mailman.po: > ____ > po:40 > reference: ⑤ Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py:297 > Original: ⌘0 Reloading pickled archive state > ____ > > Is it the archive, or the archiver who is pickled? Do they stay that > way? :D > > If this word has some specific technical meaning, please explain. ;)
Pickle is a word for a Python objective database format. See: http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/lib/module-pickle.html > > (For those who haven't encountered this idiom yet, "pickled" in > English means you're not only drunk, you also put in your best > efforts to stay that way permanently! Not the reputation we want for > a staid and respectable mailing list software. ;) ) You must realise that Mailman is a Python project. ;-) > > (Or you're a gherkin. Take your pick. ;) ) > > I notice that this word is also used in the next string, so possibly > gherkins are not involved? > -- Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/ _______________________________________________ Mailman-i18n mailing list Posts: [email protected] Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-i18n/archive%40mail-archive.com
