Commit 1abf0df5 authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Simple documentation of the copy_reg module.

Guido, you should probably look at this.  The pickle documentation is out of
date; I don't see anything about the __reduce__() stuff or the
__safe_for_unpickling__ attribute.
parent d1cc9c2b
\section{Standard Module \sectcode{copy_reg}}
% Note that the label is a little off; the underscore causes LaTeX to
% yell & scream.
\label{module-copyreg}
\stmodindex{copy_reg}
The \code{copy_reg} module provides support for the
\code{pickle}\refstmodindex{pickle} and
\code{cPickle}\refbimodindex{cPickle} modules. The
\code{copy}\refstmodindex{copy} module is likely to use this in the
future as well. It provides configuration information about object
constructors which are not classes. Such constructors may be factory
functions or class instances.
\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(in module copy_reg)}
\begin{funcdesc}{constructor}{object}
Declares \var{object} to be a valid constructor.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{pickle}{type, function\optional{, constructor}}
Declares that \var{function} should be used as a ``reduction''
function for objects of type or class \var{type}. \var{function}
should return either a string or a tuple. The optional
\var{constructor} parameter, if provided, is a callable object which
can be used to reconstruct the object when called with the tuple of
arguments returned by \var{function} at pickling time.
\end{funcdesc}
\section{Standard Module \sectcode{copy_reg}}
% Note that the label is a little off; the underscore causes LaTeX to
% yell & scream.
\label{module-copyreg}
\stmodindex{copy_reg}
The \code{copy_reg} module provides support for the
\code{pickle}\refstmodindex{pickle} and
\code{cPickle}\refbimodindex{cPickle} modules. The
\code{copy}\refstmodindex{copy} module is likely to use this in the
future as well. It provides configuration information about object
constructors which are not classes. Such constructors may be factory
functions or class instances.
\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(in module copy_reg)}
\begin{funcdesc}{constructor}{object}
Declares \var{object} to be a valid constructor.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{pickle}{type, function\optional{, constructor}}
Declares that \var{function} should be used as a ``reduction''
function for objects of type or class \var{type}. \var{function}
should return either a string or a tuple. The optional
\var{constructor} parameter, if provided, is a callable object which
can be used to reconstruct the object when called with the tuple of
arguments returned by \var{function} at pickling time.
\end{funcdesc}
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