Serializing complex objects

[Thomas Jollans]

On 21/09/2018 20:44, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
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> James
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>> Depending on what exactly your situation is, you may be able to use the
>> pickle module (in the standard library) to dump your graph and reload it
>> in a context you can get a debugger into.  Would that be sufficient?
> 
> Pickle cant serialize it (ctype pointers) and dill serializes it, but re-animating
> it fails without much useful guidance as to why, "EOFError: Ran out of input".
> 

So parts of your structure have custom serialization handlers, and other 
parts are not serializable at all? Interesting.

In any case you should be able to work around this with a custom Pickler.