Add Alexandre's suggestions

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Antoine Pitrou 2011-08-16 03:27:53 +02:00
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@ -60,6 +60,26 @@ would be an obvious improvement. Also, dedicated set support could help
remove the current impossibility of pickling self-referential sets
[2]_.
Calling __new__ with keyword arguments
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Currently, classes whose __new__ mandates the use of keyword-only arguments
can not be pickled (or, rather, unpickled) [3]_. Both a new special method
(``__getnewargs_ex__`` ?) and a new opcode (NEWOBJEX ?) are needed.
Serializing "pseudo-global" objects
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Objects which are not module-global, but should be treated in a similar
fashion -- such as methods [4]_ or nested classes -- cannot currently be
pickled (or, rather, unpickled) because the pickle protocol does not
correctly specify how to retrieve them. One solution would be through the
adjunction of a ``__namespace__`` (or ``__qualname__``) to all class and
function objects, specifying the full "path" by which they can be retrieved.
For globals, this would generally be ``"{}.{}".format(obj.__module__, obj.__name__)``.
Then a new opcode can resolve that path and push the object on the stack,
similarly to the GLOBAL opcode.
Binary encoding for all opcodes
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@ -96,6 +116,11 @@ References
.. [2] "Cannot pickle self-referencing sets":
http://bugs.python.org/issue9269
.. [3] "pickle/copyreg doesn't support keyword only arguments in __new__":
http://bugs.python.org/issue4727
.. [4] "pickle should support methods":
http://bugs.python.org/issue9276
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