[docs] [issue27635] pickle documentation says that unpickling may not call __new__
July Tikhonov
report at bugs.python.org
Wed Jul 27 13:07:25 EDT 2016
New submission from July Tikhonov:
A note just below object.__setstate__() documentation
https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/pickle.html#object.__setstate__
says that
"""
… the type should implement __getnewargs__() or __getnewargs_ex__() to establish such an invariant; otherwise, neither __new__() nor __init__() will be called.
"""
I believe that note about not calling __new__() was relevant in python2. I could not find case in python3 in which __new__() would not be called. And __init__() is not called anyway, as far as I understand (unless explicitly by __setstate__() or something).
Python 3.6.0a3+ (default:da9898e7e90d, Jul 27 2016, 19:51:12)
[GCC 4.9.3] on linux
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>>> class C:
... def __getstate__(self): return {'foo' : self.foo}
... def __setstate__(self, state): self.foo = state['foo']
... def __new__(cls):
... print('__new__ is called'); return super().__new__(cls)
... def __init__(self):
... print('__init__ is called'); self.foo = None; super().__init__()
...
>>> c = C(); c.foo = 'bar'
__new__ is called
__init__ is called
>>> import pickle
>>> c2 = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(c))
__new__ is called
>>> c2.foo
'bar'
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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 271465
nosy: docs at python, july
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: pickle documentation says that unpickling may not call __new__
versions: Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6
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