New classes, __slots__, __dict__

[Michael Hudson]

mertz at gnosis.cx (David Mertz, Ph.D.) writes:

> | Also, my admittedly simpleminded thought is that if handling slots
> | is a 2-liner, why doesn't pickle.py just do that? I have to believe that
> | the pickle authors are smart people and there is some deep technical
> | reason why getstate MUST exist if slots are used, and not just that the
> | pickle authors were too lazy and punted.
> 
> So what do you think... smart people who wrote pickle?  What's wrong
> with the (slightly-more-than-two) line solution?  What is the deep
> technical mojo that argues against this approach?

Time to read python-dev archives, I think.

Start here:

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-February/020072.html

Then read this thread

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-February/020129.html

HTH,
M.

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