[SciPy-User] Pickling timeseries Dates

[Robert Ferrell]

On Dec 10, 2009, at 8:07 AM, Pierre GM wrote:

> On Dec 10, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Robert Ferrell wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 10, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Pierre GM wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 10, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Robert Ferrell wrote:
>>>> IIRC, timeseries Date objects cannot be pickled.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, that's true. Gonna have to fix that. However,
>>> DateArrays and TimeSeries are pickable. You may want to put your
>>> Date in a single-element DateArray
>>
>> Great hint.  I had just assumed DateArrays and TimeSeries couldn't be
>> pickled because Dates can't be pickled.  This makes it all much
>> easier.  I've been str() single Date instances, which has been  
>> working
>> fine.  single-element DateArray is probably easier.
>
>
> Note that there's a problem with pickling DateArrays: you lose the  
> frequency at unpickling time. I gonna fix that ASAP. Pickling  
> TimeSeries works quite fine, though (I used them a lot).

Thanks for the heads up.  I can work around that pretty easily, but  
I'll listen for the fix.