Hey,
   On that note, I think there should also be a link to the pickle jar doc 
in sage_object.py which is where the pickle jar test actually fails (and 
perhaps the error message suggesting it might be the pickle jar).

Best,
Travis


On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:23:41 PM UTC-7, fhivert wrote:
>
>      Hi Andrew, 
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:44:59PM -0700, Andrew Mathas wrote: 
> > I guess my point is that even though pickles are a python thing, 
> > maintaining the pickle_jar itself is a sage thing and it should be 
> > documented what it does and how it is supposed to work (I'll take on 
> board 
> > your anticipated hint about improving documentation:). 
> > 
> > It's a little ironic, but looking back over the trac ticket for #9265 
> the 
> > comments show that two months ago I resolved most of the pickle problems 
> > "correctly" using register_unpickle_override but as I couldn't fix the 
> > Tableau_class pickles I decided to replace all of the offending pickles. 
> If 
> > there was documentation which said "thou shall not destroy pickles in 
> the 
> > pickle_jar" this would not have happened. 
>
> I created the following ticket when I was learning Sage four years ago. 
>
>     Ticket #5294 (new defect) 
>     On sage-combinat-devel Michael wrote: 
>
>        "The pickle jar is not in the documentation AFAIK and it definitely 
> should 
>        be. So someone who thinks this is a good idea please open a 
> ticket." 
>
>     I definitely think this is a good idea. 
>
> I think you should close it as duplicate or reuse it. 
>
> Cheers, 
>
> Florent 
>
>

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