Pickling a class instead of an instance

[Sebastien Boisgerault]

Hi,

It seems to me that it's not possible with the pickle module
to serialize a class rather than an instance, as in

I mean, it does *something*, there is no error indeed, but
from the string pickstr, I am unable to rebuild the class
C in a brand new context (got a "you're really stupid, all
you deserve is an AttributeError because you know there is
no attribute 'C' in the 'module' object" error).

Am I wrong ? Why would the "(new-style) classes are regular
objects too" mantra not apply in this case ? Could we imagine
a patch to the pickle module to handle this kind of situation ?

SB

 

[harold fellermann]

have a look at the thread "copying classes?" some days ago.
what goes for copying goes for pickling also, because the
modules use the same interface.

- harold -