"""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", "add_extension", "remove_extension", "clear_extension_cache"] dispatch_table = {} 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") # 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 _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 # A registry of extension codes. This is an ad-hoc compression # mechanism. Whenever a global reference to , is about # to be pickled, the (, ) tuple is looked up here to see # if it is a registered extension code for it. Extension codes are # universal, so that the meaning of a pickle does not depend on # context. (There are also some codes reserved for local use that # don't have this restriction.) Codes are positive ints; 0 is # reserved. extension_registry = {} # key -> code inverted_registry = {} # code -> key extension_cache = {} # code -> object def add_extension(module, name, code): """Register an extension code.""" code = int(code) if not 1 <= code < 0x7fffffff: raise ValueError, "code out of range" key = (module, name) if (extension_registry.get(key) == code and inverted_registry.get(code) == key): return # Redundant registrations are benign if key in extension_registry: raise ValueError("key %s is already registered with code %s" % (key, extension_registry[key])) if code in inverted_registry: raise ValueError("code %s is already in use for key %s" % (code, inverted_registry[code])) extension_registry[key] = code inverted_registry[code] = key def remove_extension(module, name, code): """Unregister an extension code. For testing only.""" key = (module, name) if (extension_registry.get(key) != code or inverted_registry.get(code) != key): raise ValueError("key %s is not registered with code %s" % (key, code)) del extension_registry[key] del inverted_registry[code] if code in extension_cache: del extension_cache[code] def clear_extension_cache(): extension_cache.clear() # Standard extension code assignments # Reserved ranges # First Last Count Purpose # 1 127 127 Reserved for Python standard library # 128 191 64 Reserved for Zope 3 # 192 239 48 Reserved for 3rd parties # 240 255 16 Reserved for private use (will never be assigned) # 256 Inf Inf Reserved for future assignment # Extension codes are assigned by the Python Software Foundation.