cPickle problems

[Jeff Poole]

Oh, and I suppose I should provide some version information:

$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, May 18 2006, 07:40:45)
[GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on cygwin


Jeff  Poole wrote:
> This is going to be a pretty vague message because it involves a large
> block of code I'd rather avoid posting.  Basically, I've been pickling
> a dictionary of instances of a class I've created (which contains
> references to other instances of other classes).  At some point in the
> last few weeks, pickling has stopped working with the following error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./generateTools.py", line 50, in ?
>     proj.findVHDLfiles("vhd")
>   File "/cygdrive/c/fpga/tools/FPGAProject.py", line 630, in
> findVHDLfiles
>     cpickle.dump(filenameToClassDic,pickleFile,PICKLE_FILE_PROTOCOL)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/copy_reg.py", line 83, in _reduce_ex
>     dict = getstate()
> TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
>
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this might be failing in this way?  It's
> driving me crazy.  If need be I can probably provide the code to the
> class, though it's about 1000 lines, most of which is PyParsing code.
> I appreciate any help you guys can provide.
> 
> 
> Jeff