Daniel Shahaf added the comment: Eli Bendersky wrote on Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 14:44:02 +0000: > On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Daniel Shahaf <rep...@bugs.python.org>wrote: > > I added the "_elementtree" to the tp_name in order to bypass the above > > error. Module-qualified names were in use elsewhere (including by > > _elementtree._element_iterator) so it seemed reasonable. I'll defer to > > you about compatibility implications of this change. > > I asked on pydev, but this is a key point to resolve. Can > pickling/unpickling be made to work correctly without such (or similar) > change at all? How will the unpickler know which module to load when it > sees a pickled object of Element type?
Is there a requirement that it loads a particular module? Would etree users notice the difference if pickle.load() returns an instance of the "other" Element implementation than the one they pickled? > Danial, could you investigate if such a change is absolutely required to > make pickling/unickling of Element work? Yes, I'll look into that. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16076> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
