"Miles Kaufmann" <m...@umich.edu> wrote: > On Jun 4, 2009, at 3:25 AM, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > > > A can is like a pickle, in that it is a string, but anything > > can be canned. > > Unlike a pickle, a can cannot leave the process, though, > > unless the object it points to lives in shared memory. > > > > If you have any interest, contact me and I will > > send you the source. > > Sounds like di(), which can be written: > > import _ctypes > di = _ctypes.PyObj_FromPtr > > def can(o): return str(id(o)) > def uncan(s): return di(int(s)) > > http://www.friday.com/bbum/2007/08/24/python-di/
There is nothing new... Normally it takes a long time before something is re invented. In this case it looks like less than two years. Thank you for the link - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
