On 4/12/07, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ralf, your issue is arising because of revision 53655 which fixes SF 1615701.
I have backed out this change for 2.5.1.
> Am leaving this open for others to discuss and decide. The old behavior was
> surprising to some, but the revised be
Hi Raymond,
Thanks for the detailed explanation!
> I'm not sure what your code was doing where the bugfix would cause
> breakage. If its __getitem__() override returned a meaningful value
> for each element in obj.keys(), then it should have worked fine. Of
> course, if it was raising an except
Ralf, your issue is arising because of revision 53655 which fixes SF 1615701.
Subclasses of builtins are pickled using obj.__reduce_ex__() which returns
a tuple with a _reconstructor function and a tuple of arguments to that
function.
That tuple of arguments include the subclass name, the base cl
The pickle issue may be related to revision 53655 fixing a psuedo-bug (it was
arguable whether current or prior behavior was most desirable). Will look at
this more and will report back.
Raymond
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When pickling instances of an object derived from dict, the pickle in Python
2.5.1c1 calls the object's __getitem__() method. In contrast, earlier versions
of Python incl. 2.5 don't call that method. Below is a minimal example with
outputs. Is the difference in behavior an oversight or new featu
