Update with pickle

[Matteo Dell'Amico]

Nicolas Fleury wrote:

> I think it is acceptable that this pickle.update function would only 
> accept reference of same type and raise an exception otherwise.  The 
> point of pickle.update would be to not "replace an object with another 
> one" but to call __init__ on an existing object.

I still don't understand how exactly you would want it to work. If you 
want to call __init__ on an existing object, why don't you just do it 
explicitly? Could you post some equivalent code to what you would want 
pickle.update to do?

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Ciao,
Matteo