[Twisted-Python] Persisted protocol?

[Tristan Seligmann]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Laurens Van Houtven <_ at lvh.cc> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Tim Allen <screwtape at froup.com> wrote:
>> The difference between Pickle and SQLite is that a SQLite database has
>> probably had some thought put into its schema, and is much less likely
>> to accidentally scoop up random other objects by reference. Also, if
>> your database *does* pick up some unwanted state, you have the option of
>> tinkering with the database manually; something that's much more
>> difficult to do with pickles.
>
> Right -- I'm giving plugins to the bot a SQLite database, it's up to them if
> they use it. All state serialization is explicit. I'm hoping it's going to
> be more sensible as a result.

For what it's worth, you might find this interesting:

https://launchpad.net/eridanus

It's an IRC bot implemented on Mantissa, which uses Axiom databases
(SQLite under the hood) in order to store and persist service
configuration as well as user data.
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