On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Alas, that ground is specifically not covered by pickling -- not in > the past and not now. This is by design. Pickling was designed for > data, and when the data contains a reference to a class or function, > that reference is specifically excluded from the pickling; instead, > the pickler says "here's a reference to class C (or function f) in > module M"; the unpickler imports module M, finds C or f in it, and > inserts that in the unpicked data. > > But you're not the only one to want to save and restore classes and > functions. Or if one wants to pickle instances of classes generated on the fly using the 'type' constructor and/or metaclasses. I'm looking forward to evaluating the pickle protocol 2 to see if it can make this possible. -Kevin -- -- Kevin Jacobs The OPAL Group - Enterprise Systems Architect Voice: (216) 986-0710 x 19 E-mail: jacobs@theopalgroup.com Fax: (216) 986-0714 WWW: http://www.theopalgroup.com
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