Class Persistence using __dict__

[Gene C]

> Usually, when I want to make a class persistent, I just pickle the
> class:
>
> class Test:
>
>     def Save(self, fn):
>         cPickle.dump(self, open(fn, 'w')
>

But if you do it this way, what is the def of the class method that loads
the pickle?

The following dosen't work. Which is what I tried first before dumping and
loading __dict__.

class Test:
    def Load(self, fn):
        self = cPickle.load(open(fn, 'r'))

I don't want to do the following since the loading is no longer a method of
the class. (I may want to switch to a database from a pickle someday too.)

t = cPickle.load(open(fn, 'r'))

Gene