Aug. 5, 2004
6:23 p.m.
[Michael Hudson]
Sorry, was too obscure. One of the doctests pickles a couple instances of PicklingError and disassembles the pickle. That's not going to stay the same past an old-style/new-style transition.
That's no problem. The real point of that part of the test is to exercise the different pickle protocols on an instance of a "foreign" (not defined in the same module) class. Any foreign class would do as well Creating an instance of pickle.PicklingError was just convenient; there was no intent to pick on an exception class. IOW, if this goes forward, it's no problem to change the test.