[Zope] Re: [ZPT] CVS: Releases/Zope/lib/python/ZTUtils/tests -testBatch.py:1.6

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:30:20 +0000


Steve Drees wrote:
> 
> > In which case, what could 'total' mean in the context of a batch,
> > other than the
> > total length of the sequence being batched?
> 
> The sum of the values being batched.

How does that figure? (ie please explain how you arrived at that meaning ;-)

(I ask, because you very rarely batch raw 'values', you batch objects, in which
case generic summation as you describe isn't possible and hence 'total' couldn't
be taken to mean that in this context.)

cheers,

Chris