Pierre Glaser <pierregla...@msn.com> added the comment:
I added a PR with a small patch to document this behavior and reconcile _pickle.c and pickle.py Some explanations on why I am pushing this forward: Pickling instances of classes/subclasses with slots is done natively for pickle protocol >= 2. Mentioning this behavior in the docs should *not* make the user worry about implementing custom __getstate__ methods just to preserve slots. Here is the reason why I think this functionality (allowing state and slotstate) is worth documenting: pickle gives us a lot of flexibility for reducing thanks to the dispatch_table. But unpickling is rather rigid: if no __setstate__ exists, we have to deal with the default state updating procedure present in load_build. Might as well document all of it ;) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35933> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
