tim_one@users.sourceforge.net writes:

+ /* XXX A further broken attempt to get pickling to work. + * XXX This avoids the problem above, but dies instead with + * XXX PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'timedelta'>: it's not + * XXX found as __builtin__.tmedelta

You need to arrange for a module name to appear in timedelta's tp_name: Index: obj_delta.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/nondist/sandbox/datetime/obj_delta.c,v retrieving revision 1.15 diff -c -r1.15 obj_delta.c *** obj_delta.c 2 Dec 2002 17:31:21 -0000 1.15 --- obj_delta.c 2 Dec 2002 17:37:55 -0000 *************** *** 673,679 **** static PyTypeObject PyDateTime_DeltaType = { PyObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL) 0, /* ob_size */ ! "timedelta", /* tp_name */ sizeof(PyDateTime_Delta), /* tp_basicsize */ 0, /* tp_itemsize */ 0, /* tp_dealloc */ --- 673,679 ---- static PyTypeObject PyDateTime_DeltaType = { PyObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL) 0, /* ob_size */ ! "datetime.timedelta", /* tp_name */ sizeof(PyDateTime_Delta), /* tp_basicsize */ 0, /* tp_itemsize */ 0, /* tp_dealloc */ seems a good bet. Cheers, M. -- I'm not sure that the ability to create routing diagrams similar to pretzels with mad cow disease is actually a marketable skill. -- Steve Levin -- http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Sysadmin/ASR.Quotes.html