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:mod:`pickle` --- Python object serialization
=============================================
.. index::
single: persistence
pair: persistent; objects
pair: serializing; objects
pair: marshalling; objects
pair: flattening; objects
pair: pickling; objects
.. module:: pickle
:synopsis: Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back.
.. sectionauthor:: Jim Kerr <jbkerr@sr.hp.com>.
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.. sectionauthor:: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
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The :mod:`pickle` module implements binary protocols for serializing and
de-serializing a Python object structure. *"Pickling"* is the process
whereby a Python object hierarchy is converted into a byte stream, and
*"unpickling"* is the inverse operation, whereby a byte stream
(from a :term:`binary file` or :term:`bytes-like object`) is converted
back into an object hierarchy. Pickling (and unpickling) is alternatively
known as "serialization", "marshalling," [#]_ or "flattening"; however, to
avoid confusion, the terms used here are "pickling" and "unpickling".
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.. warning::
The :mod:`pickle` module is not intended to be secure against erroneous or
maliciously constructed data. Never unpickle data received from an untrusted
or unauthenticated source.
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Relationship to other Python modules
------------------------------------
Comparison with ``marshal``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Python has a more primitive serialization module called :mod:`marshal`, but in
general :mod:`pickle` should always be the preferred way to serialize Python
objects. :mod:`marshal` exists primarily to support Python's :file:`.pyc`
files.
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The :mod:`pickle` module differs from :mod:`marshal` in several significant ways:
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* The :mod:`pickle` module keeps track of the objects it has already serialized,
so that later references to the same object won't be serialized again.
:mod:`marshal` doesn't do this.
This has implications both for recursive objects and object sharing. Recursive
objects are objects that contain references to themselves. These are not
handled by marshal, and in fact, attempting to marshal recursive objects will
crash your Python interpreter. Object sharing happens when there are multiple
references to the same object in different places in the object hierarchy being
serialized. :mod:`pickle` stores such objects only once, and ensures that all
other references point to the master copy. Shared objects remain shared, which
can be very important for mutable objects.
* :mod:`marshal` cannot be used to serialize user-defined classes and their
instances. :mod:`pickle` can save and restore class instances transparently,
however the class definition must be importable and live in the same module as
when the object was stored.
* The :mod:`marshal` serialization format is not guaranteed to be portable
across Python versions. Because its primary job in life is to support
:file:`.pyc` files, the Python implementers reserve the right to change the
serialization format in non-backwards compatible ways should the need arise.
The :mod:`pickle` serialization format is guaranteed to be backwards compatible
across Python releases.
Comparison with ``json``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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There are fundamental differences between the pickle protocols and
`JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) <http://json.org>`_:
* JSON is a text serialization format (it outputs unicode text, although
most of the time it is then encoded to ``utf-8``), while pickle is
a binary serialization format;
* JSON is human-readable, while pickle is not;
* JSON is interoperable and widely used outside of the Python ecosystem,
while pickle is Python-specific;
* JSON, by default, can only represent a subset of the Python built-in
types, and no custom classes; pickle can represent an extremely large
number of Python types (many of them automatically, by clever usage
of Python's introspection facilities; complex cases can be tackled by
implementing :ref:`specific object APIs <pickle-inst>`).
.. seealso::
The :mod:`json` module: a standard library module allowing JSON
serialization and deserialization.
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Data stream format
------------------
.. index::
single: External Data Representation
The data format used by :mod:`pickle` is Python-specific. This has the
advantage that there are no restrictions imposed by external standards such as
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JSON or XDR (which can't represent pointer sharing); however it means that
non-Python programs may not be able to reconstruct pickled Python objects.
By default, the :mod:`pickle` data format uses a relatively compact binary
representation. If you need optimal size characteristics, you can efficiently
:doc:`compress <archiving>` pickled data.
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The module :mod:`pickletools` contains tools for analyzing data streams
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generated by :mod:`pickle`. :mod:`pickletools` source code has extensive
comments about opcodes used by pickle protocols.
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There are currently 4 different protocols which can be used for pickling.
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* Protocol version 0 is the original "human-readable" protocol and is
backwards compatible with earlier versions of Python.
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* Protocol version 1 is an old binary format which is also compatible with
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earlier versions of Python.
* Protocol version 2 was introduced in Python 2.3. It provides much more
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efficient pickling of :term:`new-style class`\es. Refer to :pep:`307` for
information about improvements brought by protocol 2.
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* Protocol version 3 was added in Python 3. It has explicit support for
:class:`bytes` objects and cannot be unpickled by Python 2.x. This is
the default as well as the current recommended protocol; use it whenever
possible.
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.. note::
Serialization is a more primitive notion than persistence; although
:mod:`pickle` reads and writes file objects, it does not handle the issue of
naming persistent objects, nor the (even more complicated) issue of concurrent
access to persistent objects. The :mod:`pickle` module can transform a complex
object into a byte stream and it can transform the byte stream into an object
with the same internal structure. Perhaps the most obvious thing to do with
these byte streams is to write them onto a file, but it is also conceivable to
send them across a network or store them in a database. The :mod:`shelve`
module provides a simple interface to pickle and unpickle objects on
DBM-style database files.
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Module Interface
----------------
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To serialize an object hierarchy, you simply call the :func:`dumps` function.
Similarly, to de-serialize a data stream, you call the :func:`loads` function.
However, if you want more control over serialization and de-serialization,
you can create a :class:`Pickler` or an :class:`Unpickler` object, respectively.
The :mod:`pickle` module provides the following constants:
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.. data:: HIGHEST_PROTOCOL
The highest protocol version available. This value can be passed as a
*protocol* value.
.. data:: DEFAULT_PROTOCOL
The default protocol used for pickling. May be less than HIGHEST_PROTOCOL.
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Currently the default protocol is 3, a new protocol designed for Python 3.0.
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The :mod:`pickle` module provides the following functions to make the pickling
process more convenient:
.. function:: dump(obj, file, protocol=None, \*, fix_imports=True)
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Write a pickled representation of *obj* to the open :term:`file object` *file*.
This is equivalent to ``Pickler(file, protocol).dump(obj)``.
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The optional *protocol* argument tells the pickler to use the given protocol;
supported protocols are 0, 1, 2, 3. The default protocol is 3; a
backward-incompatible protocol designed for Python 3.0.
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Specifying a negative protocol version selects the highest protocol version
supported. The higher the protocol used, the more recent the version of
Python needed to read the pickle produced.
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The *file* argument must have a write() method that accepts a single bytes
argument. It can thus be an on-disk file opened for binary writing, a
:class:`io.BytesIO` instance, or any other custom object that meets this
interface.
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If *fix_imports* is true and *protocol* is less than 3, pickle will try to
map the new Python 3.x names to the old module names used in Python 2.x,
so that the pickle data stream is readable with Python 2.x.
.. function:: dumps(obj, protocol=None, \*, fix_imports=True)
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Return the pickled representation of the object as a :class:`bytes`
object, instead of writing it to a file.
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The optional *protocol* argument tells the pickler to use the given protocol;
supported protocols are 0, 1, 2, 3. The default protocol is 3; a
backward-incompatible protocol designed for Python 3.0.
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Specifying a negative protocol version selects the highest protocol version
supported. The higher the protocol used, the more recent the version of
Python needed to read the pickle produced.
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If *fix_imports* is true and *protocol* is less than 3, pickle will try to
map the new Python 3.x names to the old module names used in Python 2.x,
so that the pickle data stream is readable with Python 2.x.
.. function:: load(file, \*, fix_imports=True, encoding="ASCII", errors="strict")
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Read a pickled object representation from the open :term:`file object` *file*
and return the reconstituted object hierarchy specified therein. This is
equivalent to ``Unpickler(file).load()``.
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The protocol version of the pickle is detected automatically, so no protocol
argument is needed. Bytes past the pickled object's representation are
ignored.
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The argument *file* must have two methods, a read() method that takes an
integer argument, and a readline() method that requires no arguments. Both
methods should return bytes. Thus *file* can be an on-disk file opened
for binary reading, a :class:`io.BytesIO` object, or any other custom object
that meets this interface.
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Optional keyword arguments are *fix_imports*, *encoding* and *errors*,
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which are used to control compatibility support for pickle stream generated
by Python 2.x. If *fix_imports* is true, pickle will try to map the old
Python 2.x names to the new names used in Python 3.x. The *encoding* and
*errors* tell pickle how to decode 8-bit string instances pickled by Python
2.x; these default to 'ASCII' and 'strict', respectively.
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.. function:: loads(bytes_object, \*, fix_imports=True, encoding="ASCII", errors="strict")
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Read a pickled object hierarchy from a :class:`bytes` object and return the
reconstituted object hierarchy specified therein
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The protocol version of the pickle is detected automatically, so no protocol
argument is needed. Bytes past the pickled object's representation are
ignored.
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Optional keyword arguments are *fix_imports*, *encoding* and *errors*,
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which are used to control compatibility support for pickle stream generated
by Python 2.x. If *fix_imports* is true, pickle will try to map the old
Python 2.x names to the new names used in Python 3.x. The *encoding* and
*errors* tell pickle how to decode 8-bit string instances pickled by Python
2.x; these default to 'ASCII' and 'strict', respectively.
The :mod:`pickle` module defines three exceptions:
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.. exception:: PickleError
Common base class for the other pickling exceptions. It inherits
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:exc:`Exception`.
.. exception:: PicklingError
Error raised when an unpicklable object is encountered by :class:`Pickler`.
It inherits :exc:`PickleError`.
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Refer to :ref:`pickle-picklable` to learn what kinds of objects can be
pickled.
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.. exception:: UnpicklingError
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Error raised when there is a problem unpickling an object, such as a data
corruption or a security violation. It inherits :exc:`PickleError`.
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Note that other exceptions may also be raised during unpickling, including
(but not necessarily limited to) AttributeError, EOFError, ImportError, and
IndexError.
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The :mod:`pickle` module exports two classes, :class:`Pickler` and
:class:`Unpickler`:
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.. class:: Pickler(file, protocol=None, \*, fix_imports=True)
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This takes a binary file for writing a pickle data stream.
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The optional *protocol* argument tells the pickler to use the given protocol;
supported protocols are 0, 1, 2, 3. The default protocol is 3; a
backward-incompatible protocol designed for Python 3.0.
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Specifying a negative protocol version selects the highest protocol version
supported. The higher the protocol used, the more recent the version of
Python needed to read the pickle produced.
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The *file* argument must have a write() method that accepts a single bytes
argument. It can thus be an on-disk file opened for binary writing, a
:class:`io.BytesIO` instance, or any other custom object that meets this interface.
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If *fix_imports* is true and *protocol* is less than 3, pickle will try to
map the new Python 3.x names to the old module names used in Python 2.x,
so that the pickle data stream is readable with Python 2.x.
.. method:: dump(obj)
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Write a pickled representation of *obj* to the open file object given in
the constructor.
.. method:: persistent_id(obj)
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Do nothing by default. This exists so a subclass can override it.
If :meth:`persistent_id` returns ``None``, *obj* is pickled as usual. Any
other value causes :class:`Pickler` to emit the returned value as a
persistent ID for *obj*. The meaning of this persistent ID should be
defined by :meth:`Unpickler.persistent_load`. Note that the value
returned by :meth:`persistent_id` cannot itself have a persistent ID.
See :ref:`pickle-persistent` for details and examples of uses.
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.. attribute:: dispatch_table
A pickler object's dispatch table is a registry of *reduction
functions* of the kind which can be declared using
:func:`copyreg.pickle`. It is a mapping whose keys are classes
and whose values are reduction functions. A reduction function
takes a single argument of the associated class and should
conform to the same interface as a :meth:`__reduce__`
method.
By default, a pickler object will not have a
:attr:`dispatch_table` attribute, and it will instead use the
global dispatch table managed by the :mod:`copyreg` module.
However, to customize the pickling for a specific pickler object
one can set the :attr:`dispatch_table` attribute to a dict-like
object. Alternatively, if a subclass of :class:`Pickler` has a
:attr:`dispatch_table` attribute then this will be used as the
default dispatch table for instances of that class.
See :ref:`pickle-dispatch` for usage examples.
.. versionadded:: 3.3
.. attribute:: fast
Deprecated. Enable fast mode if set to a true value. The fast mode
disables the usage of memo, therefore speeding the pickling process by not
generating superfluous PUT opcodes. It should not be used with
self-referential objects, doing otherwise will cause :class:`Pickler` to
recurse infinitely.
Use :func:`pickletools.optimize` if you need more compact pickles.
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.. class:: Unpickler(file, \*, fix_imports=True, encoding="ASCII", errors="strict")
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This takes a binary file for reading a pickle data stream.
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The protocol version of the pickle is detected automatically, so no
protocol argument is needed.
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The argument *file* must have two methods, a read() method that takes an
integer argument, and a readline() method that requires no arguments. Both
methods should return bytes. Thus *file* can be an on-disk file object opened
for binary reading, a :class:`io.BytesIO` object, or any other custom object
that meets this interface.
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Optional keyword arguments are *fix_imports*, *encoding* and *errors*,
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which are used to control compatibility support for pickle stream generated
by Python 2.x. If *fix_imports* is true, pickle will try to map the old
Python 2.x names to the new names used in Python 3.x. The *encoding* and
*errors* tell pickle how to decode 8-bit string instances pickled by Python
2.x; these default to 'ASCII' and 'strict', respectively.
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.. method:: load()
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Read a pickled object representation from the open file object given in
the constructor, and return the reconstituted object hierarchy specified
therein. Bytes past the pickled object's representation are ignored.
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.. method:: persistent_load(pid)
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Raise an :exc:`UnpicklingError` by default.
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If defined, :meth:`persistent_load` should return the object specified by
the persistent ID *pid*. If an invalid persistent ID is encountered, an
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:exc:`UnpicklingError` should be raised.
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See :ref:`pickle-persistent` for details and examples of uses.
.. method:: find_class(module, name)
Import *module* if necessary and return the object called *name* from it,
where the *module* and *name* arguments are :class:`str` objects. Note,
unlike its name suggests, :meth:`find_class` is also used for finding
functions.
Subclasses may override this to gain control over what type of objects and
how they can be loaded, potentially reducing security risks. Refer to
:ref:`pickle-restrict` for details.
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.. _pickle-picklable:
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What can be pickled and unpickled?
----------------------------------
The following types can be pickled:
* ``None``, ``True``, and ``False``
* integers, floating point numbers, complex numbers
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* strings, bytes, bytearrays
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* tuples, lists, sets, and dictionaries containing only picklable objects
* functions defined at the top level of a module
* built-in functions defined at the top level of a module
* classes that are defined at the top level of a module
* instances of such classes whose :attr:`~object.__dict__` or the result of
calling :meth:`__getstate__` is picklable (see section :ref:`pickle-inst` for
details).
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Attempts to pickle unpicklable objects will raise the :exc:`PicklingError`
exception; when this happens, an unspecified number of bytes may have already
been written to the underlying file. Trying to pickle a highly recursive data
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structure may exceed the maximum recursion depth, a :exc:`RuntimeError` will be
raised in this case. You can carefully raise this limit with
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:func:`sys.setrecursionlimit`.
Note that functions (built-in and user-defined) are pickled by "fully qualified"
name reference, not by value. This means that only the function name is
pickled, along with the name of the module the function is defined in. Neither
the function's code, nor any of its function attributes are pickled. Thus the
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defining module must be importable in the unpickling environment, and the module
must contain the named object, otherwise an exception will be raised. [#]_
Similarly, classes are pickled by named reference, so the same restrictions in
the unpickling environment apply. Note that none of the class's code or data is
pickled, so in the following example the class attribute ``attr`` is not
restored in the unpickling environment::
class Foo:
attr = 'A class attribute'
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picklestring = pickle.dumps(Foo)
These restrictions are why picklable functions and classes must be defined in
the top level of a module.
Similarly, when class instances are pickled, their class's code and data are not
pickled along with them. Only the instance data are pickled. This is done on
purpose, so you can fix bugs in a class or add methods to the class and still
load objects that were created with an earlier version of the class. If you
plan to have long-lived objects that will see many versions of a class, it may
be worthwhile to put a version number in the objects so that suitable
conversions can be made by the class's :meth:`__setstate__` method.
.. _pickle-inst:
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Pickling Class Instances
------------------------
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.. currentmodule:: None
In this section, we describe the general mechanisms available to you to define,
customize, and control how class instances are pickled and unpickled.
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In most cases, no additional code is needed to make instances picklable. By
default, pickle will retrieve the class and the attributes of an instance via
introspection. When a class instance is unpickled, its :meth:`__init__` method
is usually *not* invoked. The default behaviour first creates an uninitialized
instance and then restores the saved attributes. The following code shows an
implementation of this behaviour::
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def save(obj):
return (obj.__class__, obj.__dict__)
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def load(cls, attributes):
obj = cls.__new__(cls)
obj.__dict__.update(attributes)
return obj
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Classes can alter the default behaviour by providing one or several special
methods:
.. method:: object.__getnewargs__()
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In protocol 2 and newer, classes that implements the :meth:`__getnewargs__`
method can dictate the values passed to the :meth:`__new__` method upon
unpickling. This is often needed for classes whose :meth:`__new__` method
requires arguments.
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.. method:: object.__getstate__()
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Classes can further influence how their instances are pickled; if the class
defines the method :meth:`__getstate__`, it is called and the returned object
is pickled as the contents for the instance, instead of the contents of the
instance's dictionary. If the :meth:`__getstate__` method is absent, the
instance's :attr:`~object.__dict__` is pickled as usual.
.. method:: object.__setstate__(state)
Upon unpickling, if the class defines :meth:`__setstate__`, it is called with
the unpickled state. In that case, there is no requirement for the state
object to be a dictionary. Otherwise, the pickled state must be a dictionary
and its items are assigned to the new instance's dictionary.
.. note::
If :meth:`__getstate__` returns a false value, the :meth:`__setstate__`
method will not be called upon unpickling.
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Refer to the section :ref:`pickle-state` for more information about how to use
the methods :meth:`__getstate__` and :meth:`__setstate__`.
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(I hope I got it right.) ........ r70871 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:30:56 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5618: fix typo. ........ r70872 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 14:31:17 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 3 lines Delete out-of-date and little-known README from the test directory by consensus of devs at pycon sprint. ........ r70883 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 15:41:08 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #1674032: return value of flag from Event.wait(). OKed by Guido. ........ r70885 | tarek.ziade | 2009-03-31 15:48:31 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line using log.warn for sys.stderr ........ r70893 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 15:56:32 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #1530012: move TQS section before raw strings. ........ r70894 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-31 16:06:30 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line take the usual lock precautions around _active_limbo_lock ........ r70896 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 16:15:33 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5598: document DocFileSuite *args argument. ........ r70897 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-31 16:34:42 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line fix Thread.ident when it is the main thread or a dummy thread #5632 ........ r70903 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 16:45:18 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #1676135: remove trailing slashes from --prefix argument. ........ r70905 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:03:40 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5563: more documentation for bdist_msi. ........ r70906 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:11:53 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #1651995: fix _convert_ref for non-ASCII characters. ........ r70907 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:18:19 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #3427: document correct return type for urlopen().info(). ........ r70915 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:40:16 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5018: remove confusing paragraph. ........ r70927 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 18:01:27 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line Dont shout to users. ........ r70933 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 19:04:33 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 2 lines Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled. ........ r70951 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 09:02:27 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line Add Maksim, who worked on several issues at the sprint. ........ r70960 | jesse.noller | 2009-04-01 11:42:19 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line Issue 3270: document Listener address restrictions on windows ........ r70962 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 12:07:16 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 2 lines Ron DuPlain was given commit privileges at PyCon 2009 to work on 3to2. ........ r70963 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 12:46:01 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line #5655: fix docstring oversight. ........ r70964 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 12:52:13 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 2 lines Paul Kippes was given commit privileges to work on 3to2. ........ r70998 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 16:54:21 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line In Pdb, stop assigning values to __builtin__._ which interferes with the one commonly installed by gettext. ........ r71001 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 18:01:12 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 3 lines Add my initials to Misc/developers.txt. Names are now sorted by number of characters in the person's name. ........ r71006 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 18:32:17 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line Cache the f_locals dict of the current frame, since every access to frame.f_locals overrides its contents with the real locals which undoes modifications made by the debugging user. ........ r71008 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-01 19:02:14 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line Typo fix ........ r71010 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-01 19:11:52 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line fix markup ........ r71011 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-01 19:12:47 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line this should be :noindex: ........ r71019 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 21:00:01 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line Fix test_doctest, missed two assignments to curframe. ........ r71037 | r.david.murray | 2009-04-01 23:34:04 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 6 lines Clarify that datetime strftime does not produce leap seconds and datetime strptime does not accept it in the strftime behavior section of the datetime docs. Closes issue 2568. ........ r71056 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-02 12:43:07 -0500 (Thu, 02 Apr 2009) | 2 lines Actually the displayhook should print the repr. ........ r71094 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-03 05:23:18 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line Added warning about logging use from asynchronous signal handlers. ........ r71101 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-03 16:43:00 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line Add some items ........ r71102 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-03 16:44:49 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line Fix 'the the'; grammar fix ........ r71103 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-03 16:45:29 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line Fix 'the the' duplication ........ r71106 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-03 16:58:16 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line Clarified warning about logging use from asynchronous signal handlers. ........ r71119 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-04-04 00:37:47 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line Add helpful link. ........ r71123 | r.david.murray | 2009-04-04 01:39:56 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 2 lines Fix error in description of 'oct' (issue 5678). ........ r71149 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-04 08:42:39 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line #5642: clarify map() compatibility to the builtin. ........ r71150 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-04 08:45:49 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line #5601: clarify that webbrowser is not meant for file names. ........ r71203 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-04 18:46:34 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line note how using iter* are unsafe while mutating and document iter(dict) ........ r71212 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:24:20 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line #1742837: expand HTTP server docs, and fix SocketServer ones to document methods as methods, not functions. ........ r71214 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:29:57 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line Normalize spelling of Mac OS X. ........ r71215 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:32:26 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line Avoid sure signs of a diseased mind. ........ r71216 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:41:02 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line #1718017: document the relation of os.path and the posixpath, ntpath etc. modules better. ........ r71217 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:48:47 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line #1726172: dont raise an unexpected IndexError if a voidresp() call has an empty response. ........ r71221 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-05 06:06:24 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line Issue #5695: Moved logging.captureWarnings() call inside with statement in WarningsTest.test_warnings. ........ r71240 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 09:40:06 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line #5370: doc update about unpickling objects with custom __getattr__ etc. methods. ........
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Merged revisions 70712,70714,70764-70765,70769-70771,70773,70776-70777,70788-70789,70824,70828,70832,70836,70842,70851,70855,70857,70866-70872,70883,70885,70893-70894,70896-70897,70903,70905-70907,70915,70927,70933,70951,70960,70962-70964,70998,71001,71006,71008,71010-71011,71019,71037,71056,71094,71101-71103,71106,71119,71123,71149-71150,71203,71212,71214-71217,71221,71240 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r70712 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-30 10:15:38 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line don't rely on the order dict repr #5605 ........ r70714 | brett.cannon | 2009-03-30 10:20:53 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line Add an entry to developers.txt. ........ r70764 | martin.v.loewis | 2009-03-30 17:06:33 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 2 lines Add several VM developers. ........ r70765 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-30 17:09:34 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5199: make warning about vars() assignment more visible. ........ r70769 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 17:29:53 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line Remove comment ........ r70770 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 17:30:20 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line Add several items and placeholders ........ r70771 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 17:31:11 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line Many edits ........ r70773 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-30 17:43:00 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5039: make it clear that the impl. note refers to CPython. ........ r70776 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 18:08:24 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line typo fix ........ r70777 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 18:09:46 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line Add more items ........ r70788 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 20:21:01 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line Add various items ........ r70789 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-30 20:25:15 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line Fix a wrong struct field assignment (docstring as closure). ........ r70824 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 10:43:20 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5519: remove reference to Kodos, which seems dead. ........ r70828 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 10:50:16 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5581: fget argument of abstractproperty is optional as well. ........ r70832 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 11:31:11 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #1386675: specify WindowsError as the exception, because it has a winerror attribute that EnvironmentError doesnt have. ........ r70836 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 11:50:25 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5417: replace references to undocumented functions by ones to documented functions. ........ r70842 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 12:13:06 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #970783: document PyObject_Generic[GS]etAttr. ........ r70851 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 13:26:55 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #837577: note cryptic return value of spawn*e on invalid env dicts. ........ r70855 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 13:30:37 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5245: note that PyRun_SimpleString doesnt return on SystemExit. ........ r70857 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 13:33:10 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5227: note that Py_Main doesnt return on SystemExit. ........ r70866 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:06:57 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #4882: document named group behavior a bit better. ........ r70867 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:10:35 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #1096310: document usage of sys.__std*__ a bit better. ........ r70868 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:12:17 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5190: export make_option in __all__. ........ r70869 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:14:42 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line Fix-up unwanted change. ........ r70870 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:26:24 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #4411: document mro() and __mro__. (I hope I got it right.) ........ r70871 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:30:56 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5618: fix typo. ........ r70872 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 14:31:17 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 3 lines Delete out-of-date and little-known README from the test directory by consensus of devs at pycon sprint. ........ r70883 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 15:41:08 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #1674032: return value of flag from Event.wait(). OKed by Guido. ........ r70885 | tarek.ziade | 2009-03-31 15:48:31 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line using log.warn for sys.stderr ........ r70893 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 15:56:32 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #1530012: move TQS section before raw strings. ........ r70894 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-31 16:06:30 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line take the usual lock precautions around _active_limbo_lock ........ r70896 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 16:15:33 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5598: document DocFileSuite *args argument. ........ r70897 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-31 16:34:42 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line fix Thread.ident when it is the main thread or a dummy thread #5632 ........ r70903 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 16:45:18 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #1676135: remove trailing slashes from --prefix argument. ........ r70905 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:03:40 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5563: more documentation for bdist_msi. ........ r70906 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:11:53 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #1651995: fix _convert_ref for non-ASCII characters. ........ r70907 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:18:19 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #3427: document correct return type for urlopen().info(). ........ r70915 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:40:16 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line #5018: remove confusing paragraph. ........ r70927 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 18:01:27 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line Dont shout to users. ........ r70933 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 19:04:33 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 2 lines Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled. ........ r70951 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 09:02:27 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line Add Maksim, who worked on several issues at the sprint. ........ r70960 | jesse.noller | 2009-04-01 11:42:19 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line Issue 3270: document Listener address restrictions on windows ........ r70962 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 12:07:16 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 2 lines Ron DuPlain was given commit privileges at PyCon 2009 to work on 3to2. ........ r70963 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 12:46:01 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line #5655: fix docstring oversight. ........ r70964 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 12:52:13 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 2 lines Paul Kippes was given commit privileges to work on 3to2. ........ r70998 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 16:54:21 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line In Pdb, stop assigning values to __builtin__._ which interferes with the one commonly installed by gettext. ........ r71001 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 18:01:12 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 3 lines Add my initials to Misc/developers.txt. Names are now sorted by number of characters in the person's name. ........ r71006 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 18:32:17 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line Cache the f_locals dict of the current frame, since every access to frame.f_locals overrides its contents with the real locals which undoes modifications made by the debugging user. ........ r71008 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-01 19:02:14 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line Typo fix ........ r71010 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-01 19:11:52 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line fix markup ........ r71011 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-01 19:12:47 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line this should be :noindex: ........ r71019 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 21:00:01 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line Fix test_doctest, missed two assignments to curframe. ........ r71037 | r.david.murray | 2009-04-01 23:34:04 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 6 lines Clarify that datetime strftime does not produce leap seconds and datetime strptime does not accept it in the strftime behavior section of the datetime docs. Closes issue 2568. ........ r71056 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-02 12:43:07 -0500 (Thu, 02 Apr 2009) | 2 lines Actually the displayhook should print the repr. ........ r71094 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-03 05:23:18 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line Added warning about logging use from asynchronous signal handlers. ........ r71101 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-03 16:43:00 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line Add some items ........ r71102 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-03 16:44:49 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line Fix 'the the'; grammar fix ........ r71103 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-03 16:45:29 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line Fix 'the the' duplication ........ r71106 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-03 16:58:16 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line Clarified warning about logging use from asynchronous signal handlers. ........ r71119 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-04-04 00:37:47 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line Add helpful link. ........ r71123 | r.david.murray | 2009-04-04 01:39:56 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 2 lines Fix error in description of 'oct' (issue 5678). ........ r71149 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-04 08:42:39 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line #5642: clarify map() compatibility to the builtin. ........ r71150 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-04 08:45:49 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line #5601: clarify that webbrowser is not meant for file names. ........ r71203 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-04 18:46:34 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line note how using iter* are unsafe while mutating and document iter(dict) ........ r71212 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:24:20 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line #1742837: expand HTTP server docs, and fix SocketServer ones to document methods as methods, not functions. ........ r71214 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:29:57 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line Normalize spelling of Mac OS X. ........ r71215 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:32:26 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line Avoid sure signs of a diseased mind. ........ r71216 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:41:02 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line #1718017: document the relation of os.path and the posixpath, ntpath etc. modules better. ........ r71217 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:48:47 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line #1726172: dont raise an unexpected IndexError if a voidresp() call has an empty response. ........ r71221 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-05 06:06:24 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line Issue #5695: Moved logging.captureWarnings() call inside with statement in WarningsTest.test_warnings. ........ r71240 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 09:40:06 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line #5370: doc update about unpickling objects with custom __getattr__ etc. methods. ........
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At unpickling time, some methods like :meth:`__getattr__`,
:meth:`__getattribute__`, or :meth:`__setattr__` may be called upon the
instance. In case those methods rely on some internal invariant being true,
the type should implement :meth:`__getnewargs__` to establish such an
invariant; otherwise, neither :meth:`__new__` nor :meth:`__init__` will be
called.
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.. index:: pair: copy; protocol
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As we shall see, pickle does not use directly the methods described above. In
fact, these methods are part of the copy protocol which implements the
:meth:`__reduce__` special method. The copy protocol provides a unified
interface for retrieving the data necessary for pickling and copying
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objects. [#]_
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Although powerful, implementing :meth:`__reduce__` directly in your classes is
error prone. For this reason, class designers should use the high-level
interface (i.e., :meth:`__getnewargs__`, :meth:`__getstate__` and
:meth:`__setstate__`) whenever possible. We will show, however, cases where
using :meth:`__reduce__` is the only option or leads to more efficient pickling
or both.
.. method:: object.__reduce__()
The interface is currently defined as follows. The :meth:`__reduce__` method
takes no argument and shall return either a string or preferably a tuple (the
returned object is often referred to as the "reduce value").
If a string is returned, the string should be interpreted as the name of a
global variable. It should be the object's local name relative to its
module; the pickle module searches the module namespace to determine the
object's module. This behaviour is typically useful for singletons.
When a tuple is returned, it must be between two and five items long.
Optional items can either be omitted, or ``None`` can be provided as their
value. The semantics of each item are in order:
.. XXX Mention __newobj__ special-case?
* A callable object that will be called to create the initial version of the
object.
* A tuple of arguments for the callable object. An empty tuple must be given
if the callable does not accept any argument.
* Optionally, the object's state, which will be passed to the object's
:meth:`__setstate__` method as previously described. If the object has no
such method then, the value must be a dictionary and it will be added to
the object's :attr:`~object.__dict__` attribute.
* Optionally, an iterator (and not a sequence) yielding successive items.
These items will be appended to the object either using
``obj.append(item)`` or, in batch, using ``obj.extend(list_of_items)``.
This is primarily used for list subclasses, but may be used by other
classes as long as they have :meth:`append` and :meth:`extend` methods with
the appropriate signature. (Whether :meth:`append` or :meth:`extend` is
used depends on which pickle protocol version is used as well as the number
of items to append, so both must be supported.)
* Optionally, an iterator (not a sequence) yielding successive key-value
pairs. These items will be stored to the object using ``obj[key] =
value``. This is primarily used for dictionary subclasses, but may be used
by other classes as long as they implement :meth:`__setitem__`.
.. method:: object.__reduce_ex__(protocol)
Alternatively, a :meth:`__reduce_ex__` method may be defined. The only
difference is this method should take a single integer argument, the protocol
version. When defined, pickle will prefer it over the :meth:`__reduce__`
method. In addition, :meth:`__reduce__` automatically becomes a synonym for
the extended version. The main use for this method is to provide
backwards-compatible reduce values for older Python releases.
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.. currentmodule:: pickle
.. _pickle-persistent:
Persistence of External Objects
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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.. index::
single: persistent_id (pickle protocol)
single: persistent_load (pickle protocol)
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For the benefit of object persistence, the :mod:`pickle` module supports the
notion of a reference to an object outside the pickled data stream. Such
objects are referenced by a persistent ID, which should be either a string of
alphanumeric characters (for protocol 0) [#]_ or just an arbitrary object (for
any newer protocol).
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The resolution of such persistent IDs is not defined by the :mod:`pickle`
module; it will delegate this resolution to the user defined methods on the
pickler and unpickler, :meth:`~Pickler.persistent_id` and
:meth:`~Unpickler.persistent_load` respectively.
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To pickle objects that have an external persistent id, the pickler must have a
custom :meth:`~Pickler.persistent_id` method that takes an object as an
argument and returns either ``None`` or the persistent id for that object.
When ``None`` is returned, the pickler simply pickles the object as normal.
When a persistent ID string is returned, the pickler will pickle that object,
along with a marker so that the unpickler will recognize it as a persistent ID.
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To unpickle external objects, the unpickler must have a custom
:meth:`~Unpickler.persistent_load` method that takes a persistent ID object and
returns the referenced object.
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Here is a comprehensive example presenting how persistent ID can be used to
pickle external objects by reference.
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.. literalinclude:: ../includes/dbpickle.py
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.. _pickle-dispatch:
Dispatch Tables
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If one wants to customize pickling of some classes without disturbing
any other code which depends on pickling, then one can create a
pickler with a private dispatch table.
The global dispatch table managed by the :mod:`copyreg` module is
available as :data:`copyreg.dispatch_table`. Therefore, one may
choose to use a modified copy of :data:`copyreg.dispatch_table` as a
private dispatch table.
For example ::
f = io.BytesIO()
p = pickle.Pickler(f)
p.dispatch_table = copyreg.dispatch_table.copy()
p.dispatch_table[SomeClass] = reduce_SomeClass
creates an instance of :class:`pickle.Pickler` with a private dispatch
table which handles the ``SomeClass`` class specially. Alternatively,
the code ::
class MyPickler(pickle.Pickler):
dispatch_table = copyreg.dispatch_table.copy()
dispatch_table[SomeClass] = reduce_SomeClass
f = io.BytesIO()
p = MyPickler(f)
does the same, but all instances of ``MyPickler`` will by default
share the same dispatch table. The equivalent code using the
:mod:`copyreg` module is ::
copyreg.pickle(SomeClass, reduce_SomeClass)
f = io.BytesIO()
p = pickle.Pickler(f)
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.. _pickle-state:
Handling Stateful Objects
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. index::
single: __getstate__() (copy protocol)
single: __setstate__() (copy protocol)
Here's an example that shows how to modify pickling behavior for a class.
The :class:`TextReader` class opens a text file, and returns the line number and
line contents each time its :meth:`!readline` method is called. If a
:class:`TextReader` instance is pickled, all attributes *except* the file object
member are saved. When the instance is unpickled, the file is reopened, and
reading resumes from the last location. The :meth:`__setstate__` and
:meth:`__getstate__` methods are used to implement this behavior. ::
class TextReader:
"""Print and number lines in a text file."""
def __init__(self, filename):
self.filename = filename
self.file = open(filename)
self.lineno = 0
def readline(self):
self.lineno += 1
line = self.file.readline()
if not line:
return None
if line.endswith('\n'):
line = line[:-1]
return "%i: %s" % (self.lineno, line)
def __getstate__(self):
# Copy the object's state from self.__dict__ which contains
# all our instance attributes. Always use the dict.copy()
# method to avoid modifying the original state.
state = self.__dict__.copy()
# Remove the unpicklable entries.
del state['file']
return state
def __setstate__(self, state):
# Restore instance attributes (i.e., filename and lineno).
self.__dict__.update(state)
# Restore the previously opened file's state. To do so, we need to
# reopen it and read from it until the line count is restored.
file = open(self.filename)
for _ in range(self.lineno):
file.readline()
# Finally, save the file.
self.file = file
A sample usage might be something like this::
>>> reader = TextReader("hello.txt")
>>> reader.readline()
'1: Hello world!'
>>> reader.readline()
'2: I am line number two.'
>>> new_reader = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(reader))
>>> new_reader.readline()
'3: Goodbye!'
.. _pickle-restrict:
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Restricting Globals
-------------------
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.. index::
single: find_class() (pickle protocol)
By default, unpickling will import any class or function that it finds in the
pickle data. For many applications, this behaviour is unacceptable as it
permits the unpickler to import and invoke arbitrary code. Just consider what
this hand-crafted pickle data stream does when loaded::
>>> import pickle
>>> pickle.loads(b"cos\nsystem\n(S'echo hello world'\ntR.")
hello world
0
In this example, the unpickler imports the :func:`os.system` function and then
apply the string argument "echo hello world". Although this example is
inoffensive, it is not difficult to imagine one that could damage your system.
For this reason, you may want to control what gets unpickled by customizing
:meth:`Unpickler.find_class`. Unlike its name suggests,
:meth:`Unpickler.find_class` is called whenever a global (i.e., a class or
a function) is requested. Thus it is possible to either completely forbid
globals or restrict them to a safe subset.
Here is an example of an unpickler allowing only few safe classes from the
:mod:`builtins` module to be loaded::
import builtins
import io
import pickle
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safe_builtins = {
'range',
'complex',
'set',
'frozenset',
'slice',
}
class RestrictedUnpickler(pickle.Unpickler):
def find_class(self, module, name):
# Only allow safe classes from builtins.
if module == "builtins" and name in safe_builtins:
return getattr(builtins, name)
# Forbid everything else.
raise pickle.UnpicklingError("global '%s.%s' is forbidden" %
(module, name))
def restricted_loads(s):
"""Helper function analogous to pickle.loads()."""
return RestrictedUnpickler(io.BytesIO(s)).load()
A sample usage of our unpickler working has intended::
>>> restricted_loads(pickle.dumps([1, 2, range(15)]))
[1, 2, range(0, 15)]
>>> restricted_loads(b"cos\nsystem\n(S'echo hello world'\ntR.")
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
pickle.UnpicklingError: global 'os.system' is forbidden
>>> restricted_loads(b'cbuiltins\neval\n'
... b'(S\'getattr(__import__("os"), "system")'
... b'("echo hello world")\'\ntR.')
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
pickle.UnpicklingError: global 'builtins.eval' is forbidden
.. XXX Add note about how extension codes could evade our protection
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mechanism (e.g. cached classes do not invokes find_class()).
As our examples shows, you have to be careful with what you allow to be
unpickled. Therefore if security is a concern, you may want to consider
alternatives such as the marshalling API in :mod:`xmlrpc.client` or
third-party solutions.
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Performance
-----------
Recent versions of the pickle protocol (from protocol 2 and upwards) feature
efficient binary encodings for several common features and built-in types.
Also, the :mod:`pickle` module has a transparent optimizer written in C.
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.. _pickle-example:
Examples
--------
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For the simplest code, use the :func:`dump` and :func:`load` functions. ::
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import pickle
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# An arbitrary collection of objects supported by pickle.
data = {
'a': [1, 2.0, 3, 4+6j],
'b': ("character string", b"byte string"),
'c': set([None, True, False])
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}
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with open('data.pickle', 'wb') as f:
# Pickle the 'data' dictionary using the highest protocol available.
pickle.dump(data, f, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
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The following example reads the resulting pickled data. ::
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import pickle
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with open('data.pickle', 'rb') as f:
# The protocol version used is detected automatically, so we do not
# have to specify it.
data = pickle.load(f)
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.. XXX: Add examples showing how to optimize pickles for size (like using
.. pickletools.optimize() or the gzip module).
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.. seealso::
Module :mod:`copyreg`
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Pickle interface constructor registration for extension types.
Module :mod:`pickletools`
Tools for working with and analyzing pickled data.
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Module :mod:`shelve`
Indexed databases of objects; uses :mod:`pickle`.
Module :mod:`copy`
Shallow and deep object copying.
Module :mod:`marshal`
High-performance serialization of built-in types.
.. rubric:: Footnotes
.. [#] Don't confuse this with the :mod:`marshal` module
.. [#] The exception raised will likely be an :exc:`ImportError` or an
:exc:`AttributeError` but it could be something else.
.. [#] The :mod:`copy` module uses this protocol for shallow and deep copying
operations.
.. [#] The limitation on alphanumeric characters is due to the fact
the persistent IDs, in protocol 0, are delimited by the newline
character. Therefore if any kind of newline characters occurs in
persistent IDs, the resulting pickle will become unreadable.