[docs] pickle docs - what can be pickled

Georg Brandl georg at python.org
Tue Jan 1 16:09:58 CET 2013


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On 01/01/2013 01:28 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
> In the pickle docs of 3.3, section 12.4.1 says:
> 
> "instances of such classes whose __dict__ or __setstate__() is picklable"
> 
> Does it actually mean __setstate__ or __getstate__ ?

ISTM __setstate__ is correct, since that's the method that has to be
looked up at unpickling time.  (__getstate__ is called at pickling time.)

Georg
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