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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 15:57:30 +1000
Subject: Re: UnpicklingError: NEWOBJ class argument isn't a type object
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On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:27 PM, skunkwerk <skunkwerk@gmail.com> wrote:
>   I'm using a custom pickler that replaces any un-pickleable objects (such as sockets or files) with a string representation of them...
>
> If it pickles okay, why should it not be able to unpickle?  Any ideas?

Generally, the reason something won't pickle is because it won't be
able to be unpickled. So arbitrarily creating a string might allow the
pickle operation to continue, but might well prevent unpickling still.
I don't know, you'd have to play around with it.

ChrisA