oh yeah! thanks for pointing it out, i should have thought of that, i *just* read about it today, or was it yesterday.
so what's the problem with pickle? i have a feeling, maybe i read it, that when you pickle a derived class it pickles it as a member of the base class, is that it? i don't know how i would get around the problem, though, because i'd have to know how to access the deque object that my class stores when i do deque.__init__ in my constructor, so that i could pickle it and my class variables separately. "Larry Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > inhahe wrote: >> def __init__(self, filename, initial): >> >> should be >> >> def __init__(self, filename, initial=[]): >> >> (that was the whole reason i put the filename first.) >> >> sorry. >> >> >> > Defaulting initial to empty list this way is asking for trouble. You > should > default it to None and check for None and reset to empty list. > > -Larry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
