Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: See also issue3657. For some reasons, C bound methods aliased as module globals can be pickled, but not similarly aliased Python bound methods:
>>> random.random, random.seed (<built-in method random of Random object at 0x27abe20>, <bound method Random.seed of <random.Random object at 0x27abe20>>) >>> pickle.dumps(random.random) b'\x80\x03crandom\nrandom\nq\x00.' >>> pickle.dumps(random.seed) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/pickle.py", line 1314, in dumps Pickler(f, protocol, fix_imports=fix_imports).dump(obj) _pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <class 'method'>: attribute lookup builtins.method failed ---------- assignee: loewis -> nosy: +belopolsky, pitrou stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue558238> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com