[Python-ideas] pickle does not work properly with cooperative multiple inheritance. Propose: "__getnewkwargs__".

[Neil Girdhar]

An alternative is to allow __getnewargs__ to return a "PassedArgSpec" as I 
described in another idea.

On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:21:37 PM UTC-4, Neil Girdhar wrote:
>
> My understanding of cooperative multiple inheritance is that a class often 
> doesn't know how your parent classes want to be constructed, pickled, etc. 
> and so it delegates to its parents using super.
>
> In general, constructors can accept keyword arguments, and forward their 
> unused arguments to parents effortlessly:
>
> class A(B):
>     def __init__(self, x, **kwargs):
>          super().__init__(**kwargs)
>
> will extract x and forward kwargs.
>
> Unfortunately, the same mechanism is not easily available for pickling 
> because __getnewargs__ returns only a tuple.  If there were a 
> __getnewkwargs__ method, then we could have
>
> class A:
>     def _getnewkwargs__(self):
>          return {**super().__getnewkwargs(), a=self.a, b=self.b}  # (new 
> unpacking from PEP448)
>
> Note how additional kwargs are added to the dict of kwargs specified by 
> the parent objects.
>
> Best,
>
> Neil
>
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