a pickle's pickle

[Magnus Lycka]

temposs at gmail.com wrote:

> class TrainingMatrix:
>     matrix = []
>     estimator = {}
>     wordInfo = {}
>     contextInfo = {}
>     totalWordsProcessed = 0
>     numWords = 0
>     numContexts = 0
>     matrixWords = 0

Is there some confusion between the scope of the class
object and the scopes of the instance objects perhaps?

Are you aware of this distinction? See below:

 >>> class X:
...     m=0
...
 >>> X.m
0
 >>> x=X()
 >>> x.m
0
 >>> x.m += 5
 >>> x.m
5
 >>> X.m
0

Are you pickling the class object or an instance?

If you are pickling the class: Why? Is the data
really in the class object?

If you are pickling an instance:
    Is the data in the class object?
    Is the data in another instance object?