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| | 63 | <a name='unitproperty_types'><h5>UnitProperty types</h5></a> |
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| | 64 | <p>Dejavu is extensible, and in official specification/API terms, any Python |
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| | 65 | type is allowed as a <tt>UnitProperty.type</tt>. The standard distribution |
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| | 66 | tends to provide full support for: |
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| | 67 | |
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| | 68 | <ul> |
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| | 69 | <li><tt>bool</tt></li> |
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| | 70 | <li><tt>int</tt></li> |
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| | 71 | <li><tt>long</tt></li> |
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| | 72 | <li><tt>float</tt></li> |
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| | 73 | <li><tt>decimal.Decimal</tt></li> |
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| | 74 | <li><tt>fixedpoint.FixedPoint</tt></li> |
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| | 75 | <li><tt>str</tt></li> |
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| | 76 | <li><tt>unicode</tt></li> |
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| | 77 | <li><tt>datetime.date</tt></li> |
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| | 78 | <li><tt>datetime.time</tt></li> |
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| | 79 | <li><tt>datetime.datetime</tt></li> |
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| | 80 | <li><tt>datetime.timedelta</tt></li> |
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| | 81 | <li><tt>tuple</tt></li> |
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| | 82 | <li><tt>list</tt></li> |
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| | 83 | <li><tt>dict</tt></li> |
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| | 84 | </ul> |
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| | 85 | |
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| | 86 | ...where "full support" means that all StorageManagers distributed with |
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| | 87 | Dejavu MUST correctly store these types and SHOULD optimize their storage |
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| | 88 | as well as they can. In many cases, the complex types (tuple, list, dict) |
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| | 89 | are pickled, and indeed any other type that is not represented here tends |
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| | 90 | to be pickled. It's important to realize, however, that different storage |
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| | 91 | managers have complete latitude to optimize as they see fit; for example, |
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| | 92 | the RamStorage class stores values whole, doesn't need to serialize, and |
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| | 93 | therefore does no pickling at all.</p> |
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