Re: [Python-Dev] Broader iterable support for xmlrpclib

2005-12-07 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 12/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I then proposed the even wackier idea to simply allow all currently > >> unsupported iterables (sets and arrays seem the most obvious > >> candidates to me) to be marshalled as lists > > Raymond> Doesn't the appropriate

Re: [Python-Dev] Broader iterable support for xmlrpclib

2005-12-07 Thread skip
>> I then proposed the even wackier idea to simply allow all currently >> unsupported iterables (sets and arrays seem the most obvious >> candidates to me) to be marshalled as lists Raymond> Doesn't the appropriate conversion depend on the contract Raymond> between the sender

Re: [Python-Dev] Broader iterable support for xmlrpclib

2005-12-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
[Skip] > I then proposed the > even wackier idea to simply allow all currently unsupported iterables > (sets > and arrays seem the most obvious candidates to me) to be marshalled as > lists Doesn't the appropriate conversion depend on the contract between the sender and receiver (i.e. an array of

[Python-Dev] Broader iterable support for xmlrpclib

2005-12-05 Thread skip
During the bug day Andrew Kuchling (I think) mentioned that he was working on some xmlrpclib issues. I then broached an idea I had a week or so ago to allow sets to be marshalled as XML-RPC arrays. This was met with some head scratching by those present. Forging ahead nonetheless, I then propos