On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:08:15 +1000, Andrew Bennetts <andrew-twisted@puzzling.org> wrote:

Quick question:

Even if an object is of an unknown wacky type (say Zope's extension class), shouldn't jelly (and friends) check for callable(getattr(obj, '__getstate__, None)) anyway (i.e. treat it like an InstanceType and see what happens)? It looks like this is what pickle does.

-Andrew.

I'm working on support for new-style classes right now. It's a little trickier than it sounds, because Pickle is willing to invoke functions from just about anywhere and I've tried to make the various Twisted serializers, especially Jelly, not do that. (Notwithstanding the `eval' currently in marmalade...) -- | <`'> | Glyph Lefkowitz: Traveling Sorcerer | | < _/ > | Lead Developer, the Twisted project | | < ___/ > | http://www.twistedmatrix.com |