Aug. 11, 2014
12:25 p.m.
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
Read again. The OP tries to delegate attribute lookup to an (existing) attribute.
IMO the root cause of the problem is that pickle looks up __dunder__ methods in the instance rather than the class.
The recursion comes from the attempted lookup of self.item, when __init__ hasn't been called.
You are right. Sorry for the confusion.