On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Aaron Scott<aaron.hildebra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to pickle an instance of a class. It mostly works just fine
> -- I can save the pickle to a file, restore it from that file, and
> it's mostly okay. The problem is, some lists seem to disappear. For
> example (snipped and crunched from the code giving me trouble):
>
> ---
>
>
> class InitGame:
> value = False
> journal = []
>
>
> game.InitGame()
That line doesn't make sense with the code you've given...
> def Save():
> global game
> import cPickle, gzip, os
>
> # Change some data
> game.journal.append("A value")
> game.value = True
>
> pickles = {'game': game}
> jar = gzip.open("pickefile", 'wb')
> cPickle.dump(pickles, jar, 2)
> jar.close()
>
>
> def Load():
> global game
> import gzip, os, cPickle
> jar = gzip.open("picklefile", 'r')
> loaded = cPickle.load(jar)
> jar.close()
> game = loaded["game"]
>
>
> ---
>
> Now, if I save a pickle, then load it back in, I'll get an instance of
> InitGame called "game", and game.value will be true, but the list
> "journal" will be empty.
>
> Am I missing something obvious about the pickle spec? Am I doing
> something wrong? Or should I be hunting for a deeper bug in the code?
Your class definition isn't right. It makes 'value' and 'journal'
class variables (Java lingo: "static variables") as opposed to the
instance variables they should be. Here's a corrected version:
class InitGame(object):
def __init__(self):
#instance variables are created through self.foo assignments in __init__
self.value = False
self.journal = []
Cheers,
Chris
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