__getattr__ and pickle

[Gordon McMillan]

[posted and mailed]

Sean Mc Grath wrote:

>Sheesh! I really need a holiday! 

Probably <wink>!

>I have a reproduceable GPF on NT when pickling objects of a class
>that has a __getattr__ implementation. Take out the __getattr__ and
>the pickle works fine.
>
>Are there ways to implement __getattr__ and yet preserve the ability
>to pickle?

C'mon Sean! You've been around a while. You know when __getattr__ hacks go 
bad it's because they go recursive. (And the stack size on Windows is off 
by  some tiny amount, so it GPFs instead of traps.)

So what do we need:

>>> class A:
...  def __getattr__(self, nm):
...   print "get", nm
...   raise AttributeError, nm
...
>>> a = A()
>>> import pickle
>>> s = pickle.dumps(a)
get __getinitargs__
get __getstate__
>>> x = pickle.loads(s)
get __setstate__
>>> import cPickle
>>> s = cPickle.dumps(a)
get __getinitargs__
get __getstate__
>>> x = cPickle.loads(s)
get __setstate__
>>> 

Do you have a __getinitargs__ or __getstate__ or __setstate__ that might be 
triggering a call to __getattr__?

Does an Irishman like to talk?

- Gordon