New submission from Stefan Schwarzer:
I recently was confused whether to raise a `PicklingError` or `TypeError` in
`__getstate__` if objects of my class can't and shouldn't be pickled. [1]
Terry Reedy advised I should use `TypeError`. [2]
I wonder if the `pickle` module document
Stefan Schwarzer added the comment:
Hi Senthil,
I don't yet understand what was going on before it resulted in the traceback. I
also don't understand _why_ the patch fixes _this_ bug. (That's not to say it
doesn't, but I think it's not obvious either. :-) )
Were
Stefan Schwarzer added the comment:
The traceback and its context for the exception raised in Python 2.7 is:
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Stefan Schwarzer added the comment:
After running the adapted test script three times for Python 3 tip (changeset
c5b0585624ef), I didn't get an error message / exception.
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Stefan Schwarzer added the comment:
I can confirm the bug for the Python 2.7 tip (changeset b11e7bc76d07) after
using the script urllibftpbug-non-interactive.py.
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Stefan Schwarzer added the comment:
> I converted the script to be executable with manual intervention (see
> attachment).
This should have been "without manual intervention". :)
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Stefan Schwarzer added the comment:
I was able to get some error output with the code of the OP. However, I only
saw the "opposite" message, such as:
Retrieval of
'ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/debian/dists/stable/main/source/Sources.bz2' failed
with error: [Errno ftp err
Stefan Schwarzer added the comment:
It turned out that although the addinfourl instance had the `__iter__`
attribute in `addbase.__init__` correctly assigned, `__iter__` wasn't found by
the `iter` builtin. It seems that `iter` always tries to use the `__iter__`
method of the _class
