Bugs item #1457119, was opened at 2006-03-23 19:29
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Category: Extension Modules
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Ori Peleg (oripel)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Unifying pickle and cPickle exception class hierarchies
Initial Comment:
Should the pickle and cPickle exception class
hierarchies be unified? Perhaps just subclass one
grandparent PickleError class? That way module copy_reg
can throw exceptions from this hierarchy.
Here's the experience that led to the thought:
(1) confusing exception types when a class can't be pickled
When an object can't be pickled, sometimes a TypeError
is raised, and sometimes an exception derived from
pickle.PickleError or cPickle.PickleError, a screenshot
is pasted below.
(2) copy_reg raises TypeError
When a pickle-related exception occurs in copy_reg, a
TypeError is raised, e.g. in line 69:
raise TypeError, "can't pickle %s objects" % base.__name__
but if copy_reg wants to raise an exception from the
pickle module's hierarchy...
(3) copy_reg doesn't know if pickle or cPickle are used
It can't choose between the two, therefore it chooses
TypeError.
=== screenshot ===
>>> import sys, pickle, cPickle
>>> try: raise RuntimeError
... except: tb = sys.exc_info()[-1]
...
>>> frame = tb.tb_frame
>>> pickle.dumps(frame)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pickle.py", line 1386, in dumps
Pickler(file, protocol, bin).dump(obj)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pickle.py", line 231, in dump
self.save(obj)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pickle.py", line 313, in save
rv = reduce(self.proto)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/copy_reg.py", line 69, in
_reduce_ex
raise TypeError, "can't pickle %s objects" %
base.__name__
TypeError: can't pickle frame objects
>>> cPickle.dumps(frame)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/copy_reg.py", line 69, in
_reduce_ex
raise TypeError, "can't pickle %s objects" %
base.__name__
TypeError: can't pickle frame objects
>>> pickle.dumps(tb)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pickle.py", line 1386, in dumps
Pickler(file, protocol, bin).dump(obj)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pickle.py", line 231, in dump
self.save(obj)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pickle.py", line 319, in save
raise PicklingError("Can't pickle %r object: %r" %
pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle 'traceback' object:
<traceback object at 0xb7d1d324>
>>> cPickle.dumps(tb)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
cPickle.UnpickleableError: Cannot pickle <type
'traceback'> objects
>>>
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