Was my proposal clear?  If reduce isn't updated to return the keyword arguments then it is not compatible with classes that require keyword arguments without some serious metaclass fiddling as far as I can tell.


On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
On 06/07/2014 12:39 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote:

Any comments on this?

__reduce__ is already a well-defined part of pickle.

We also have __reduce_ex__, __getnewargs__, and now __getnewargs_ex__ -- why do we need __reduce__ to do the same thing as __getnewargs_ex__?

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