__getattr__ and pickle

Warren Postma embed at NOSPAM.geocities.com
Wed Jul 5 14:58:43 EDT 2000


"Gordon McMillan" <gmcm at hypernet.com> wrote in message
news:8F655BA3Egmcmhypernetcom at 199.171.54.154...
> [posted and mailed]
> C'mon Sean! You've been around a while. You know when __getattr__ hacks go
> bad it's because they go recursive. (And the stack size on Windows is off
> by  some tiny amount, so it GPFs instead of traps.)


That kinda says (a) Windows Sucketh, and (b) surely there must be a
workaround for the Infinite-Recursion-Crash bug?

Oh yeah, there is, .... It's called Christian Tismer's Stackless Python.
Hope that stackless makes it into the official python, by 1.7, or if not,
there's always 3000.  Here's hoping.

Warren





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