Robin Becker robin at jessikat.demon.co.uk
Mon Jan 31 11:34:36 EST 2000

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can someone explain why shelve uses StringIO as an intermediate rather
than doing the pickles direct

ie shelve uses
        def __getitem__(self, key):
                f = StringIO(self.dict[key])
                return Unpickler(f).load()

        def __setitem__(self, key, value):
                f = StringIO()
                p = Pickler(f)
                p.dump(value)
                self.dict[key] = f.getvalue()


whereas I would have done
        def __getitem__(self, key):
                return loads(self.dict[key])

        def __setitem__(self, key, value):
                self.dict[key] = dumps(value)

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Robin Becker

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