On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Ethan Van Andel <evlu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 3, 3:01 pm, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>
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>> On Oct 3, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Ethan Van Andel wrote:
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>> > I have a class Riemann Map, coded in cython and added to the sage
>> > library.
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>> > I have this problem: Note that m is an instance of Riemann_Map and
>> > get_szego returns an array contained in m.
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>> > sage: dumps(m)
>> > 'x\x9ck`J.NLO\xd5KN\xccI.\xcd)-\xd6+\xcaL\xcdM\xcc\xcb\xe3\n
>> > \x82\xd0\xf1\
>> > \xbe\x89\x05\\\x85\x8c\x9a\x8d\x85Lz\x00i\xbe\x0f@'
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>> > sage: m == loads(dumps(m))
>> > False
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>> > sage: len(dumps(m.get_szego()))
>> > 63410
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>> > Do I need to define dumps for my classes? If so, how?
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>> You need to define a __reduce__ method. You also need to make sure
>> you have a __cmp__ method.
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>> - Robert
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> Sorry, but where can I find info on what those are?
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> I checked the documentation but couldn't find anything helpful.
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They are Python language features. So if you type

    python __reduce__

into Google, the first his it is:

http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html

William

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