pickling types from pywintypes

[Gerhard Häring]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:22:01PM +0000, John S. Yates, Jr. wrote:
> I am developing a network file system redirector and trying to write a
> test framework in Python using the win32all package.  To be able to
> script multiple client machines I have a win32 server that runs on my
> slave machines and a master controller test suite runner that
> communicates with the slaves via dopy rpc.
> 
> dopy is layered on [c]pickle.  The problem I am having is that the
> pywintypes do not seem to be pickleable: [...]

For some types it doesn't make sense to pickle them, file handles, for
example. But if it makes sense and a type cannot currently be pickled,
you can use the copy_reg module to provide a custom
(de)serialization function to the pickle module for that type.

Gerhard
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