PicklingError with md5.md5() object Von: Ulli Stein <mennosimons at gmx.net> Datum: Dienstag, 24. September 2002 17:03:09 Gruppen: comp.lang.python Folgenachricht an: mennosimons at gmx.net Keine Referenzen

[Gerhard Häring]

Ulli Stein wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Hi,
> 
> while trying to pickle a md5 instance I get the following error:
> 
>>>> import cPickle, md5
>>>> f=open("/tmp/t", "w")
>>>> p = cPickle.Pickler(f)
>>>> m=md5.md5()
>>>> p.dump(m)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> cPickle.UnpickleableError: Cannot pickle <type 'md5.md5'> objects
> 
> 
> What should I do?

If you really need this, you'll probably have to patch md5 (and for
additional bonus points, sha and hmac, too) to support pickling. I
think, however, that this will be far from a trivial task, as you'll
have to dig through the internals of the MD5_CTX struct.

Do you really need to pickle md5 objects? I currently can only imagine
use cases where pickling full digests (from the .digest() or
.hexdigest() methods) makes sense. Do you really need to pickle
half-computed digests?

-- Gerhard