pickling problem

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Thu Jun 7 21:06:45 EDT 2007


Brian Blais wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a somewhat nested dict that I want to pickle, but it (sometimes) contains some
> no-no's  (specifically, in this case, functions).  I know I can't pickle them, but I
> would like to be able to pickle the rest of the dict.  Is there a good way to be able
> to walk through a dict, and take out all of the non-pickleable objects?  I could
> replace them with something else (a tag of some sort, for me to reconstruct things
> later).
>
>
> 		thanks,
>
> 			Brian Blais
>
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>
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One way to do that could be:

>> d = {1:functionA, 2:functionB, 3:"String"}
>> for key in d:
>>     if callable(key): d[key] = "tag"

That would work for the functions in your dictionary.




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