I got this to work by returning from reduce just the args that the __init__ of the type being pickled requires ( rather than the 5 length tuple described in the pickling docs ), I am not going to argue with it though..
thank you *very* much for the help! S On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/3/11 9:28 PM, Stefan Kuzminski wrote: > >> closer I think >> >> 1) I changed tp_name to be 'observation.MV' ( module is named >> observation.c ) >> and now I get a new error.. >> >> PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'observation.MV'>: import of module >> observation failed >> >> 2) here is the init function, sorry I did not include it in the original >> listing >> >> void initobservation(void) { >> >> PyObject *m; >> m = Py_InitModule("observation", observation_methods); >> >> Py_INCREF(&PyMV_Type); >> PyModule_AddObject(m, "MV", (PyObject *)&PyMV_Type); >> >> } >> > > Without seeing the whole C code, or the Python code you are trying, I can't > help much more. > > > -- > Robert Kern > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless > enigma > that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it > had > an underlying truth." > -- Umberto Eco > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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