Alexandre Vassalotti <alexan...@peadrop.com> added the comment: I agree with Nick.
And if you really want to, you could hack a Pickler subclass to support NoneType: import io import pickle class XPickler(pickle.Pickler): def persistent_id(self, obj): if obj is type(None): return "NoneType" return None class XUnpickler(pickle.Unpickler): def persistent_load(self, persistent_id): if persistent_id == "NoneType": return type(None) def dumps(obj): f = io.BytesIO() XPickler(f).dump(obj) return f.getvalue() def loads(s): return XUnpickler(io.BytesIO(s)).load() Not super elegant, but it works: >>> loads(dumps([type(None), None])) [<type 'NoneType'>, None] ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6477> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com