[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Suggestion for pickle

viennet@ura1507.univ-paris13.fr viennet@ura1507.univ-paris13.fr
Fri, 28 Mar 1997 22:15:21 +0100


 I'm not totally satisfied with the current interaction between the
pickle module and NumPy.

 Numeric.py defines two sub-classes, Pickler and Unpickler to be able
to pickle/unpickle NumPy arrays. One can use these classes in the
following way: 

from Numeric import *
a = array( [1,2,3,7], Float32 )
p = Pickler( open( 'test.pck', 'w' ) )
p.dump( a )

 But NOT using the standard pickle.Pickler and pickle.Unpickler
classes, which is sometimes annoying.
I suggest to directly modify the original classes: just add

pickle.Unpickler = Unpickler
pickle.Pickler = Pickler

at the end of Numeric.py

Comments ?

Emmanuel

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Emmanuel Viennet: <viennet@ura1507.univ-paris13.fr>
LIPN - Institut Galilee - Universite Paris-Nord       
93430 Villetaneuse -  France

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