[storm] question about ReferenceSet

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hello Stephan,

> I'm new to storm and really like it so far. Until now I've used my own 
> homegrown database wrapper (so I can't compare to SQLAlchemy or SQLObject). 

I'm glad that you enjoy it.


> I've a question about ReferenceSet. The name implies some relation to, well, 
> sets. Is it planned that the set interface will be supported sometimes in the 
> future?

It may be, but notice that the "set" naming isn't about being able to do
Python-style set operations in this case, but rather about the fact that
this type offers access to "a set of referenced objects".

> For example, if I have some classes 'User' and 'Group', I'd like to be able to 
> do something like this:
> accessGroups = set([grp1, grp2, grp3])
> if usr.groups & accessGroups:
> 	doSomething

This does look like an interesting feature, and at first sight I can't
think of any incoveniences about it.  It's been added it to the TODO
file for future consideration.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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Gustavo Niemeyer
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