cpython/Lib/copy_reg.py
Guido van Rossum 3926a63d05 - Provisional support for pickling new-style objects. (*)
- Made cls.__module__ writable.

- Ensure that obj.__dict__ is returned as {}, not None, even upon first
  reference; it simply springs into life when you ask for it.

(*) The pickling support is provisional for the following reasons:

- It doesn't support classes with __slots__.

- It relies on additional support in copy_reg.py: the C method
  __reduce__, defined in the object class, really calls calling
  copy_reg._reduce(obj).  Eventually the Python code in copy_reg.py
  needs to be migrated to C, but I'd like to experiment with the
  Python implementation first.  The _reduce() code also relies on an
  additional helper function, _reconstructor(), defined in
  copy_reg.py; this should also be reimplemented in C.
2001-09-25 16:25:58 +00:00

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"""Helper to provide extensibility for pickle/cPickle.
This is only useful to add pickle support for extension types defined in
C, not for instances of user-defined classes.
"""
from types import ClassType as _ClassType
__all__ = ["pickle","constructor"]
dispatch_table = {}
safe_constructors = {}
def pickle(ob_type, pickle_function, constructor_ob=None):
if type(ob_type) is _ClassType:
raise TypeError("copy_reg is not intended for use with classes")
if not callable(pickle_function):
raise TypeError("reduction functions must be callable")
dispatch_table[ob_type] = pickle_function
if constructor_ob is not None:
constructor(constructor_ob)
def constructor(object):
if not callable(object):
raise TypeError("constructors must be callable")
safe_constructors[object] = 1
# Example: provide pickling support for complex numbers.
def pickle_complex(c):
return complex, (c.real, c.imag)
pickle(type(1j), pickle_complex, complex)
# Support for picking new-style objects
_dummy_classes = {}
def _reconstructor(cls, base, state):
dummy = _dummy_classes.get(base)
if dummy is None:
class dummy(base): pass
_dummy_classes[base] = dummy
obj = dummy(state)
obj._foo = 1; del obj._foo # hack to create __dict__
obj.__class__ = cls
return obj
_reconstructor.__safe_for_unpickling__ = 1
_HEAPTYPE = 1<<9
def _reduce(self):
for base in self.__class__.__mro__:
if not base.__flags__ & _HEAPTYPE:
break
else:
base = object # not really reachable
if base is object:
state = None
else:
state = base(self)
return _reconstructor, (self.__class__, base, state), self.__dict__