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Re: pickling instances of metaclass generated classes

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lars van gemerden wrote:

>> import pickle
>> import sys
>>
>> class MetaClass(type):
>>     pass
>>
>> class M(object):
>>     def __init__(self, module):
>>         self.__module = module
>>     def __getattr__(self, name):
>>             print "creating class", name
>>             class_ = MetaClass(name, (), {"__module__": self.__module})
>>             setattr(self, name, class_)
>>             return class_
>>
>> sys.modules["m"] = M("m")
>> import m
>> c = m.x
>> s = pickle.dumps(c)
>> print repr(s)
>> d = pickle.loads(s)
>>
>> assert c is d
>>
>> sys.modules["m"] = M("m")
>> e = pickle.loads(s)
>>
>> assert c is not e
>>
>> The official way is probably what Robert mentioned, via the copy_reg
>> module, but I didn't get it to work.
> 
> I will look further into this. does "sys.modules["m"] = M("m")" create
> a new module?

Assigning to sys.modules[modulename] can put arbitrary objects into the 
module cache, in this case an M instance. To drive the point home:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.modules["x"] = 42
>>> import x
>>> x
42
>>> sys.modules["x"] = "spam"
>>> import x
>>> x
'spam'

> Cheers, Lars
> 
> PS: I get an error when posting this to the usenet group

Sorry, that seems to happen when I post via gmane and don't manually clear 
the follow-up that my newsreader helpfully (knode) inserts. I've not yet 
found a permanent fix, but if that was the problem you should be able to 
answer this post.

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pickling instances of metaclass generated classes lars van gemerden <lars@rational-it.com> - 2011-12-29 01:55 -0800
  Re: pickling instances of metaclass generated classes Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2011-12-29 11:08 +0000
  Re: pickling instances of metaclass generated classes Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-12-29 12:55 -0700
    Re: pickling instances of metaclass generated classes lars van gemerden <lars@rational-it.com> - 2011-12-30 01:50 -0800
      Re: pickling instances of metaclass generated classes Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-12-30 12:41 +0100
      Re: pickling instances of metaclass generated classes Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-01-01 13:51 +0100
    Re: pickling instances of metaclass generated classes lars van gemerden <lars@rational-it.com> - 2011-12-30 03:16 -0800
      Re: pickling instances of metaclass generated classes lars van gemerden <lars@rational-it.com> - 2011-12-30 07:56 -0800
        Re: pickling instances of metaclass generated classes lars van gemerden <lars@rational-it.com> - 2011-12-30 08:51 -0800
          Re: pickling instances of metaclass generated classes Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-12-30 10:09 -0700
  Re: pickling instances of metaclass generated classes lars van gemerden <lars@rational-it.com> - 2012-01-03 03:43 -0800

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