[New-bugs-announce] [issue43905] dataclasses.astuple does deepcopy on all fields

[Erik Carstensen]

New submission from Erik Carstensen <mandolaerik at gmail.com>:

It seems that the 'dataclass.astuple' function does a deepcopy of all fields. This is not documented. Two problems:

1. Dictionary keys that rely on object identity are ruined:
    import dataclasses
    @dataclasses.dataclass
    class Foo:
        key: object
    key = object()
    lut = {key: 5}
    (y,) = dataclasses.astuple(Foo(x))
    # KeyError
    lut[y]

2. dataclasses can only be converted to a tuple if all fields are serializable:

    import dataclasses
    @dataclasses.dataclass
    class Foo:
        f: object
    foo = Foo(open('test.py'))
    dataclasses.astuple(foo)

->

TypeError: cannot pickle '_io.TextIOWrapper' object


In my use case, I just want a list of all fields. I can do the following as a workaround:
  (getattr(foo, field.name) for field in dataclasses.fields(foo))

Tested on Python 3.8.7 and 3.7.9.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 391516
nosy: mandolaerik
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: dataclasses.astuple does deepcopy on all fields
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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