[Python-Dev] python2.7 infinite recursion when loading pickled object

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
> Read again. The OP tries to delegate attribute lookup to an (existing)
> attribute.
>
> IMO the root cause of the problem is that pickle looks up __dunder__ methods
> in the instance rather than the class.

The recursion comes from the attempted lookup of self.item, when
__init__ hasn't been called.

ChrisA