On 3/29/06, Graham Dumpleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you okay with: > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-81 > > Pickling/unpickling top-level functions defined in published > module no longer works in mod_python 3.2 > > being resolved as "Won't Fix" and then closed?
I agree that this seems to be something that is just not solvable without causing complete havoc with all the specialized import and reload functionality, or resulting in a solution that is too fragile. It is just a limitation of the pickle mechanism. This of course doesn't mean that users wouldn't want to pickle these kinds of things. But that the burden in those cases should be on them. It may be possible to solve this for class instances (e.g., objects) by subclassing the Unpickler class and substituting a smarter find_class() method. But as for globals, functions, etc., it looks like it may be much harder. The user may also be able to take advantage of the external object pickling (with persistent ids), but I haven't looked at them too closely. Regardless, there are lots of alternatives, so I have no problem with mod_python not solving this one (although the mod_python documentation should clearly emphasize these pickling limitiations). -- Deron Meranda
