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- """Helper to provide extensibility for pickle/cPickle.
-
- This is only useful to add pickle support for extension types defined in
- C, not for instances of user-defined classes.
- """
-
- from types import ClassType as _ClassType
-
- __all__ = ["pickle","constructor"]
-
- dispatch_table = {}
- safe_constructors = {}
-
- def pickle(ob_type, pickle_function, constructor_ob=None):
- if type(ob_type) is _ClassType:
- raise TypeError("copy_reg is not intended for use with classes")
-
- if not callable(pickle_function):
- raise TypeError("reduction functions must be callable")
- dispatch_table[ob_type] = pickle_function
-
- if constructor_ob is not None:
- constructor(constructor_ob)
-
- def constructor(object):
- if not callable(object):
- raise TypeError("constructors must be callable")
- safe_constructors[object] = 1
-
- # Example: provide pickling support for complex numbers.
-
- def pickle_complex(c):
- return complex, (c.real, c.imag)
-
- pickle(type(1j), pickle_complex, complex)
-
- # Support for picking new-style objects
-
- def _reconstructor(cls, base, state):
- obj = base.__new__(cls, state)
- base.__init__(obj, state)
- return obj
- _reconstructor.__safe_for_unpickling__ = 1
-
- _HEAPTYPE = 1<<9
-
- def _reduce(self):
- for base in self.__class__.__mro__:
- if hasattr(base, '__flags__') and not base.__flags__ & _HEAPTYPE:
- break
- else:
- base = object # not really reachable
- if base is object:
- state = None
- else:
- if base is self.__class__:
- raise TypeError, "can't pickle %s objects" % base.__name__
- state = base(self)
- args = (self.__class__, base, state)
- try:
- getstate = self.__getstate__
- except AttributeError:
- try:
- dict = self.__dict__
- except AttributeError:
- dict = None
- else:
- dict = getstate()
- if dict:
- return _reconstructor, args, dict
- else:
- return _reconstructor, args
-