Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Actually the tp_new field of list iterator class is NULL. Unpickler raises other error in such case (see issue24900 for example).
UnpicklingError: NEWOBJ class argument has NULL tp_new Backported to 2.7 the part of the patch for issue22995 fixes this issue. >>> copy.copy(iter([])) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython-2.7/Lib/copy.py", line 88, in copy rv = reductor(2) TypeError: can't pickle listiterator objects ---------- dependencies: +Restrict default pickleability nosy: +serhiy.storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14350> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com