Re: First round of comments merging done

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 12:49:05 -0500, Blake Winton <blake-dlUKtbW3TlBcVw/[email protected]> wrote:
> Bill Mill wrote:
> > If I had my druthers, we'd pickle the comments instead of putting them
> > in xml. When would they ever need to be read by anything but Python? I
> > don't see much advantage there.
> 
> I'm really fond of being able to edit the comments in vi on my server.
> Removing links to sites that I'm not fond of, or slanderous terms.  That
> sort of thing.
> 

That's a reasonable use case. Doing it the pickle way, we could store
plain-text pickles which look like:

(dp1
S'description'
p2
S'This is a comment with a motherf*($ing swear in it'
p3
sS'author'
p4
S'Bill Mill'
p5

Not incredibly user friendly, but certainly readable, and also faster
for the program to parse than xml is. (That last bit is an untested
intuitive assumption on which I may be wrong, but I think I'm right.)

Really, though, don't you mostly just delete offending comments? That
just seems to me to be the way that I would do it, but I've never
actually had to manage a web site that people go to, so I have no idea
about it. Also, it'd be a piece of cake to implement a swear filter,
just let me know if you want that. I could do it in about 10 minutes.

And, finally, if we did do an alternative comments module, we would
certainly keep the original one around. A lot of people use it and
like it, so it won't be going away any time soon.

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com

> Later,
> Blake.
> 
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