[Tutor] OT: Notion of persistence in Python

[François Granger]

At 16:13 -0500 28/10/02, in message [Tutor] OT: Notion of persistence 
in Python, McCarney, James Alexander wrote:
>If this is terribly OT, I apologize. I've been googling the web for
>information on persistence. On the one hand I've come up with hits galore,
>but on the other hand no one seems to be explaining what it is and its use.
>Is this a notion that is not Pythonic, wrt the use of the language? Or is it
>more of a functional Scheme type thing?
>
>Any insights and clear explanations appreciated.

I am not a language specialist.

For me, persistence is when the language takes care of saving the 
data for you. Hypercard and Frontier on Macintosh, ToolBook on 
Windows were the best exemple of this.

Python does not do this as most programming languages. But it gives 
you the tools to implement it if you wish.

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