[Python-ideas] Put default setstate and getstate on object for use in coöperative inheritance.

[Benjamin Peterson]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at ...> writes:
> Yes - increased complexity in the language core. Currently, pickling is
completely independent of the language core, so implementations can reuse
the same pickling library (although they may want to write an accelerated
version eventually).

That's not really true considering the amount of pickle goop in typeobject.c
and the fact that many builtin types implement their own pickling.