[SciPy-User] Pickling timeseries Dates

[Pierre GM]

On Dec 10, 2009, at 10:12 PM, Robert Ferrell wrote:
>> 
> Fernando reminded me that any date scalar will trigger the pickle  
> problem.  Some of my objects have Date instances stashed all over the  
> place.  Converting all those to single-element DateArrays is not  
> feasible.

And converting them to something else, like a datetime or even just a tuple (value,freq)


> 
> Why can't Date instances be pickled, and how hard would it be to  
> change that?


because we never implemented it on the C side, and that'll depend on whether Matt Knox can do it or not.