Pickling Robustly
Glyph Lefkowitz
glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Fri Apr 21 15:06:28 EDT 2000
m.faassen at vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen) writes:
> Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>
> The Digicool people must've run into similar problems with their
> Zope Object Database, which is based on Pickle. Perhaps looking at
> the ZODB wouldn't be a bad idea, if you haven't already, therefore:
>
> http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/proceedings/papers/fulton/zodb3.html
> http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/HowTos/ZODB-How-To
> http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Developer/Models/ZODB
>
> Though I'm not sure if they indeed have solved your problem, as far
> as I understand it.
Thanks for the link! This is some great reading, and gives me a
number of things to think about. However, one of the first things I
noticed was:
The ZODB stores objects in Python pickle format [van
Rossum99]. All of the rules for pickling objects apply. See the
documentation for the Python pickle module for more details.
... so I don't think it *quite* solves my problems :)
(It also imposes some other inconvenient restrictions, such as the necessity of subclassing from Persistent and allowing it to override __setattr__ and __getattr__, which I need to have overridden for various other reasons).
Perhaps I should ask this question in a different way. How does
Pickle tell if an object is pickleable or not? Is there some
pickle.ispicklable method I could refer to?
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