[mod_python] persistent, reliable globals

Erik Stephens writes:

> > > Perhaps what would be handy: a special python function call, 
> > > implemented via the API, to allow setting/getting of 
> objects global 
> > > to all the forked children for a particular named 
> interpreter. These 
> > > objects might be accessible through the req object, for 
> example. I 
> > > don't know enough to judge...
> > >
> > > Is this feaible? Useful (well, it would be to me...)? Easy/hard?
> >
> > Why don't you just use on-disk storage (e.g. anydbm) or a remote db 
> > for this?  Why reinvent the wheel?
> 
> Doesn't this limit you to using pickle-able objects only 
> then?  There are some important things that don't fall under 
> this category (e.g. db connections).

That's what middleware is for.  Again, why reinvent the wheel?

Best,

--Michael