[Numpy-discussion] pickling ufuncs?

[Robert Kern]

eric jones wrote:
> I recently noticed that we can't pickle ufuncs (like sin, ...).  Is 
> there any technical reason this doesn't work, or is it in the category 
> of 'just needs to be done...'

We talked about this about two weeks ago:

  http://projects.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2007-January/025778.html

In short, there is a technical reason that it doesn't work in general, there is
a workaround that will work for all of the ufuncs that are exposed in modules
(but not those created on the fly by scipy.vectorize(), for example), and that
workaround is in the category of "just needs to be done."

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco