Pickling of generators

[Steve Holden]

KIaus Muller wrote:
> Generators are becoming more and more important and powerful in Python. 
> The inability of pickle to save/restore generators has become a major 
> (and growing) limitation to the full exploitation of generators.
> 
> The requirement for pickling generators has already been raised in 2003.
> 
> My project (SimPy - Simulation in Python) has had this requirement since 
> its inception in 2002. Generator pickling would make saving and 
> reloading simulation state trivial. The workarounds one has to use 
> without this capability are baroque and beyond the expertise of a 
> typical simulation user.
> 
> Is there any hope of action in this area in the foreseeable future?
> 
I doubt it, though who can know what's in the minds of other developers.

You might want to look at Stackless Python, which allows you to pickle 
tasklets and resume them - even on a machine of a different architecture.

regards
  Steve
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