Message 76082 - Python tracker

Message76082

Author	brett.cannon
Recipients	barry, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, gvanrossum, jcea, vstinner
Date	2008-11-19.23:52:11
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Message-id	<1227138732.18.0.42418151083.issue3799@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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OK, now I see why it is called 'dumb'; the thing literally just dumps out the repr of two strings on each line for key/value pairs. To read it just evals each line in the string. And whichdb detects this format by looking for ' or " as the first character since that is what the repr for str is. And that is why the Latin-1 decoding was used; it has the proper repr for write-out.

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OK, now I see why it is called 'dumb'; the thing literally just dumps
out the repr of two strings on each line for key/value pairs. To read it
just evals each line in the string. And whichdb detects this format by
looking for ' or " as the first character since that is what the repr
for str is. And that is why the Latin-1 decoding was used; it has the
proper repr for write-out.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-11-19 23:52:13	brett.cannon	set	recipients: + brett.cannon, gvanrossum, barry, jcea, vstinner, christian.heimes
2008-11-19 23:52:12	brett.cannon	set	messageid: <1227138732.18.0.42418151083.issue3799@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-11-19 23:52:11	brett.cannon	link	issue3799 messages
2008-11-19 23:52:11	brett.cannon	create