Pickling new-style classes w/ getinitargs

[Dave Brueck]

I wrote:
> What is the correct way to pickle a new-style class that makes use of
> __getinitargs__? In the test below, __getinitargs__ gets called only on
> old-style classes (pickle appears to call __getinitargs__ only if the object
> type is InstanceType, but new-style class instances have a type of the the
> class). Google didn't turn up anything obvious; I'm starting my search on
> SourceForge but it's extremely slow at the moment.

Well, SourceForge woke up and told me this:

[ 873246 ] pickle: __getinitargs__ not used for new-style objects

Thanks anyway,
Dave