[ZODB-Dev] ZODB class instances not behaving Pythonically

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

I just realized that PersistentMapping and IOBTree are behaving just like
dictionaries, which is perfectly Pythonic. And since they are initially
empty, their truth value is zero/false, just like empty dictionaries. Sorry
to cause a fuss. I was momentarily confused. (Picture Jiminy Glick when you
read "confused.")

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech (http://www.orbtech.com)
"I am, therefore I think."

-----Original Message-----
From: zodb-dev-admin@zope.org [mailto:zodb-dev-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
Patrick K. O'Brien
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 9:45 AM
To: ZODB
Subject: [ZODB-Dev] ZODB class instances not behaving Pythonically

Can someone explain the difference in behavior exhibited by ZODB classes,
such as PersistentMapping, versus a regular Python class instance, as shown
in this PyCrust shell session? Actually, FolderManager is a Persistent
class, so that ZODB class appears to be fine. But PersistentMapping, IOBTree
and others don't behave as expected:

>>> from ZODB.PersistentMapping import PersistentMapping
>>> pm = PersistentMapping()
>>> pm
<PersistentMapping instance at 01A39F90>
>>> if pm: print "yeah"
...
>>> if pm is not None: print "yeah"
...
yeah
>>> not pm
1
>>> not not pm
0
>>>
>>> from ZODBrowser.folder import FolderManager
>>> fm = FolderManager()
>>> fm
<FolderManager instance at 01B610C0>
>>> if fm: print "yeah"
...
yeah
>>> if fm is not None: print "yeah"
...
yeah
>>> not fm
0
>>> not not fm
1
>>>

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech (http://www.orbtech.com)
"I am, therefore I think."



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