Re: persistent composites

2009-06-14 Thread kindly
On Jun 14, 3:27 pm, Aaron Brady wrote: > Hi, please forgive the multi-posting on this general topic. > > Some time ago, I recommended a pursuit of keeping 'persistent > composite' types on disk, to be read and updated at other times by > other processes.  Databases provide this functionality, with

Re: Different types of dicts with letter before the curly braces.

2009-06-14 Thread kindly
> > If the OP takes this idea to python-ideas, chances are he'll be told to take > the concept here first, for feedback, before python-ideas. > > More comments below: > > > kindly wrote: > >> I am sure people have thought of this before, but I cant find whe

Re: Different types of dicts with letter before the curly braces.

2009-06-14 Thread kindly
On Jun 14, 12:25 pm, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:02:47 -0700 (PDT) > > kindly wrote: > > Am I crazy to think this is a good idea?  I have not looked deeply > > pythons grammer to see if it conflicts with anything, but on the > > surface it look

Different types of dicts with letter before the curly braces.

2009-06-14 Thread kindly
I am sure people have thought of this before, but I cant find where. I think that python should adapt a way of defining different types of mapping functions by proceeding a letter before the curly brackets. i.e ordered = o{}, multidict = m{} (like paste multidict). So you could define an order