Unpickling from strings

[Doug Fort]

Perhaps it is getting garbled in transmission.  We quote ours:

    urllib.quote_plus(cPickle.dumps(self._statsdict))

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"Marcin Chady" <marcin.chady at ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> I have pickled an object into a string and saved it in an hidden HTML form
> field, so that I can recover the state when the form is resubmitted.
> However, when the form comes back and I try to unpickle my object I get an
> error saying that the module in which the object's class was originally
> defined is unknown, even though the CGI script which does the unpickling
has
> already imported the module!
>
> Has anyone got an idea why it is?
>
> Marcin
>
>