[ZODB-Dev] Article on ZODB Programming

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:52:23PM -0700, Michel Pelletier wrote:
>I don't know the why of it, but the function get_transaction is stuffed
>into the global namespace by ZODB when it is imported.  I'm cc:ing the
>zodb-dev list to see if anyone knows why.

This seems reasonable to me.  I think of the ZODB providing a
programming language slightly different from Python, one that has
transactional semantics on object modification.  In this view, it's
perfectly reasonable to add a new built-in function for getting the
current transaction.  

--amk