> TreeSets are essentially BTrees with only keys. This means that the > members of a TreeSet must have a stable ordering. I suspect that that > c's class does not define the comparison methods (such as __lt__) > which means under Python 2 it falls back to the default ordering based > on object id (Python 3 will raise a TypeError instead, avoiding this > problem.) With ZODB an object's Python id (the memory address of the > object) will change whenever it is reloaded, i.e. across restarts, > after invalidation or removal from the cache.
Yes, I know that. But I have a __cmp__ function defined, based on an object property that never changes. That should be enough, no? > The _check() method only confirms that the BTree/TreeSets's internal > data structure is consistent. It does not check every item. So it does > not show an error in this case. I see. I thought it did some order checking as well. Thanks, Pedro -- José Pedro Ferreira Software Developer, Indico Project http://indico-software.org +-----------+ + '``'--- `+ CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research + |CERN| / + 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland + ..__. \. + IT-UDS-AVC + \\___.\ + Office: 513-1-005 + / + Tel. +41227677159 +-----------+ _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
