[pypy-dev] Can't pickle a numpy object?

[mike c]

Hi there,
I'm new to pypy and trying it out on some numerical projects and the speed
of pypy+numpy is about 4x faster than cpython+numpy. Pretty impressive!

However, I want to pickle some of my numpy objects and I get the
error: TypeError: can't pickle numarray objects  (full error is included
below)

I realise that the numpy implementation in pypy is currently a
proof-of-concept, and so I was wondering what I would have to change to get
numarray's to be pickle-able.  As simple as adding a something like a
__pickle__ method to numarray?  Or is the problem deeper than that?

Mike.



>>>> import pickle, numpy
>>>> a = numpy.array([1,2,3])
>>>> pickle.dumps(a)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/mike/pypy-1.6/lib-python/modified-2.7/pickle.py", line 1423,
in dumps
    Pickler(file, protocol).dump(obj)
  File "/Users/mike/pypy-1.6/lib-python/modified-2.7/pickle.py", line 224,
in dump
    self.save(obj)
  File "/Users/mike/pypy-1.6/lib-python/modified-2.7/pickle.py", line 306,
in save
    rv = reduce(self.proto)
  File "/Users/mike/pypy-1.6/lib-python/2.7/copy_reg.py", line 70, in
_reduce_ex
    raise TypeError, "can't pickle %s objects" % base.__name__
TypeError: can't pickle numarray objects
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