within a class, redefining self with pickled file

[Greg Ewing]

Sean Blakey wrote:
> On 7 Apr 2005 15:27:06 -0700, syd <syd.diamond at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> def unpickle(self):
>>   self = pickle.load(open(self.getFilePath('pickle')))

> Note, however, that you can MODIFY self in-place within a method. You
> can probably hack together a solution that modifies self.__dict__,
> self.__class__, self.__class__.__dict__, or some other magic
> properties.

such as

   def unpickle(self):
     new_self = pickle.load(open(self.getFilePath('pickle')))
     self.__class__ = new_self.__class__
     self.__dict__.update(new_self.__dict__)

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg