[egenix-users] mx.TextTools - pickling bug with UnicodeTagTable?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2007-08-02 18:20, Frank McIngvale wrote:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "testPickleSegFault.py", line 24, in ?
>>     print pickle.loads(s)
>>   File "/usr/local/python-2.4-ucs2/lib/python2.4/pickle.py", line 1394,
>> in loads
>>     return Unpickler(file).load()
>>   File "/usr/local/python-2.4-ucs2/lib/python2.4/pickle.py", line 872,
>> in load
>>     dispatch[key](self)
>>   File "/usr/local/python-2.4-ucs2/lib/python2.4/pickle.py", line 1153,
>> in load_reduce
>>     value = func(*args)
>>   File "/home/lemburg/projects/mx/TextTools/__init__.py", line 17, in _TT
>>     return TagTable(definition)
>> TypeError: tag table entry 0: conversion from Unicode to string failed
>>
>> I've never tried to pickle tag tables before :-) What's the use
>> case for this ?
> 
> 
> I'm adding/updating the support for mx.* types in xml.pickle (Gnosis_Utils)
> getting ready for a new release, and am including all types that have a
> copy_reg() in mx.*. But I suppose if no one has hit this before then I don't
> need to worry about it :-)

We'll add support for pickling UnicodeTagTables with the next
release (and of course fix the seg fault). Unfortunately, the
change is not as trivial as fixing the segfault.

Thanks,
-- 
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