[Zope-dev] Zope client? (invitation for developers)

Itamar Shtull-Trauring itamar@maxnm.com
Thu, 11 May 2000 19:06:14 +0300


Chris McDonough wrote:

> While I understand what you mean, this isn't entirely accurate.  XML-RPC
> doesn't use the pickle module.  It marshals return values into one of
> its known datatypes.  It likewise can't handle arbitrary objects
> transparently.

Yup, marshal is the word I wanted.  Or, since there's a marshal module,
serialize.  Anyway, XML-RPC is far superior to Z.Client, and SOAP will be
better cause it can also serialize None, IIRC.

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Itamar S.T.  itamar@maxnm.com