[Twisted-Python] Re: pickle apparently doesn't go with curry ...

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 04:50 am, Michael Hudson wrote:
> jml at mumak.net (Jonathan M. Lange) writes:
> > >>> def foo():
> >
> > =2E..   pass
> > =2E..
> >
> > >>> import cPickle
> > >>> cPickle.dump(foo, open('testpickle', 'w'))
> > >>> bar =3D cPickle.load(open('testpickle'))
> >
> > I'd imagine this would work in most versions of python, given that
> > people have been pickling objects for countless generations.
>
> Oops, my mistake.  But note that whats been pickled is a reference to
> __main__.foo, not the function object itself:

That's true about all code-like objects. The code itself doesn't get 
pickled, only the state. The code is retrieved by the unpickler via the 
references to the location of the code - the package name, module name, 
class name, function name, etc.

-- 
Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech      http://www.orbtech.com/web/pobrien
-----------------------------------------------
"Your source for Python programming expertise."
-----------------------------------------------