ANN: generator_tools-0.1 released

[Steven Bethard]

Kay Schluehr wrote:
> Originally I came up with the idea of a pure Python implementation for
> copyable generators as an ActiveState Python Cookbook recipe. Too bad,
> it was badly broken as Klaus Müller from the SimPy project pointed
> out. Two weeks and lots of tests later I got finally a running version
> that works not only in the very most simple use cases. As the code
> size increased it turned out to not really fit anymore into the
> "recipe" category and I created a package called "generator_tools".
> 
> generator_tools-0.1 is available for both Python 2.5 and Python 3.0
> (!)
[snip]
>>>> pickler = GeneratorPickler("test.pkl")
>>>> pickler.pickle_generator(g_gen)
>>>> k_gen = pickler.unpickle_generator()
>>>> list(g_gen) == list(k_gen)
> True

This seems like an odd syntax for pickling. Does the package support the 
normal pickle machinery?  That is, does it register the appropriate 
methods with the copy_reg module?

STeVe