Python-1.5.2 cPickle

[Robin Becker]

In message <20000822010123.F4933 at xs4all.nl>, Thomas Wouters
<thomas at xs4all.net> writes
>On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:11:37PM +0100, Robin Becker wrote:
>
>> Is it correct behaviour for 1.5.2 cPickle to cause a fatal error just
>> because say copy_reg is not available?
>
>What kind of fatal error ? An exception ? A SystemError ? A Segmentation
>Violation ? cPickle needs the 'copy_reg' module; if you don't have it, it
>won't work, but it should just raise an ImportError, not do anything bad or
>anything. If you want to know why it needs the copy_reg module, try reading
>the 'pickle' module (which is written in Python, a *lot* more readable than
>C! :-)
>
C:\>python
Python 1.5.2 (#0, Apr 13 1999, 10:51:12) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import cPickle
"can't initialize module cPickle":
        <class exceptions.ImportError at 8898c0>, 'No module named
copy_reg'
Fatal Python error: "can't initialize module cPickle"

abnormal program termination

C:\>

-- 
Robin Becker