cPickle and subclassing lists?

[Peter Otten]

Reckoner wrote:

> On Apr 17, 10:42 am, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
>> Reckoner wrote:
>> > I have a large class that is a child of list. I need to pickle it, but
>> > it's not working. For example, I have reduced it to the following:
>>
>> > class Mylist(list):
>> >     def __init__(self,x=[]):
>> > list.__init__(self,x)
>>
>> > and I cannot even get this to pickle right.
>>
>> >>> w=Mylist([1,2,3])
>> >>> dumps(w)
>>
>> > PicklingError: Can't pickle <class '__main__.p'>: attribute lookup
>> > __main__.p fa
>> > iled
>>
>> > I'm using python 2.5 on win32.
>>
>> > any help appreciated.
>>
>> This error occurs when you try to pickle a class that cannot be found by
>> its name:
>>
>> >>> from cPickle import dumps
>> >>> class p: pass
>> ...
>> >>> a = p
>> >>> del p
>> >>> dumps(a)
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> cPickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle __main__.p: attribute lookup
>> __main__.p failed
>>
>> I don't see how this error could be triggered by the code you give above.
>> Please try it again in a fresh interpreter.
>>
>> Peter
> 
> sorry. here it is:
> 
> PicklingError: Can't pickle <class '__main__.Mylist'>: attribute
> lookup __main__.Mylist failed

Please post the complete script that provoked the error.
Does the error occur when you run it from the command line?

Peter