Are you really mussing around in the internals of instances of other peoples' classes? Have you no respect?! :-)

Unless you can get your class to read the documentation of those modules it is futzing with and modify its own behaviour based on what it learns, I suggest you reconsider your design.

Maybe I'm missing something but I don't understand why you aren't just creating containers for the objects that you store rather than modifying the objects themselves. Isn't that how generalized persistence is usually implemented?

Tacking locking onto that is relatively easy. I used FreezeThaw and BerkeleyDB to do exactly this for in-house use. I've since upgraded it to use Storable.

Good luck. 

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

In reply to Re: Are array based objects fixed length? by sauoq
in thread Are array based objects fixed length? by pdcawley

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