Hi all, I am trying to write an (optional!) C extension for SQLAlchemy, and I am struggling to make an extension type picklable *and* using the same format as the pure Python version (so that computers with the C extension can unpickle pickles from computers without it and vice-versa). Also the extension type (MyBase in the example code below) only serves as a base class for the type that get pickled (MyPythonType). MyPythonType also has further subclasses and those should be picklable too.
My setup is as follow: On the Python side: ================ try: from cextension import MyBase except ImportError: class MyBase(object): __slots__ = ('a', 'b', 'c') def __init__(self, a, b, c): self.a, self.b, self.c = a, b, c def __getstate__(self): ... def __setstate__(self, state): ... ... class MyPythonType(MyBase): ... On the .c side: =========== I implemented a reduce method, which returns Py_BuildValue("(O(s)N)", Py_TYPE(self), "__state__", state); and in my BaseRowProxy_init method, I check the number of arguments, whether the "__state__" marker is present and unpack the state if it is. This makes the type nicely pickleable, but this is obviously not the same "pickle format" as the Python version. What would you recommend in this kind of situation? I'm a bit tired of trial and error... My last hope is to define __reduce__ on the Python side too, and make it use a module-level "reconstructor" function as follow: def mypythontype_reconstructor(cls, state): obj = object.__new__(cls, state): .... return obj Will this work? Any other idea? Thanks in advance, -- Gaƫtan de Menten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list