[Python-Dev] making python's c iterators picklable (http://bugs.python.org/issue14288)

[Christian Tismer]

On 3/13/12 4:05 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:53:42 +0000
> Kristján Valur Jónsson<kristjan at ccpgames.com>  wrote:
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue14288
>>
>> Raymond suggested that this patch should be discussed here, so here goes:
> Sounds good on the principle.
> Of course, the patch needs to be reviewed.

I am very much for this patch. Of course I am biased by my stackless
history and would be very happy to get most pickling into Python,
where it belongs.

To improve the patch a bit, I propose to put the hidden types into
some module. I agree with Kristjan that the types module would
be a good place to bootstrap the hidden iterable types.

I even would like to propose a PEP:
Whenever stuff is turned into C, which was picklable when implemented
in Python, or something new is implemented that makes sense to
pickle, a pickle implementation should always be provided.

cheers -- chris

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