Can somebody explain what's happening with the following script? $ echo example.py import pickle
class Example(object): def __init__(self, obj, registry): self._obj = obj self._registry = registry for name, func in self._registry.iteritems(): setattr(self, name, func.__get__(obj, obj.__class__)) def __gestate__(self): # should skip the bound methods attributes return dict(_registry=self._registry, _obj=self._obj) class C(object): pass def foo(self): pass if __name__ == '__main__': ex = Example(C(), dict(foo=foo)) pickle.dumps(ex) I get the following traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "pickle_error.py", line 22, in <module> pickle.dumps(ex) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 1366, in dumps Pickler(file, protocol).dump(obj) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 224, in dump self.save(obj) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 331, in save self.save_reduce(obj=obj, *rv) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 419, in save_reduce save(state) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 286, in save f(self, obj) # Call unbound method with explicit self File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 649, in save_dict self._batch_setitems(obj.iteritems()) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 663, in _batch_setitems save(v) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 306, in save rv = reduce(self.proto) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/copy_reg.py", line 69, in _reduce_ex raise TypeError, "can't pickle %s objects" % base.__name__ TypeError: can't pickle instancemethod objects I know that instancemethods cannot be pickled, this is why I used a __getstate__ method, but apparently it does not work. Any hint? Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list