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On Feb 9, 1:01*am, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote:
> Barak, Ron schrieb:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I need to copy an instance of a class, where one of the items in the original is a cStringIO.StringO object.
> > I do not need the cStringIO.StringO in the target object.
> > The target instance is to be pickled.
>
> > Googling made me devise the following plan: do a deepcopy from the original to the target, and then delete the cStringIO.StringO object from the target.
>
> > However, trying to use copy.deepcopy produced: TypeError: object.__new__(cStringIO.StringO) is not safe, use cStringIO.StringO.__new__()
>
> > Is there a way to create a copy of the instance, sans the cStringIO.StringO ?
>
> > If I find no elegant way to do that, I thought of creating a "blank" target instance; then iterating over the __dict__ of the original, and manually copy the items to the target (while not copying the cStringIO.StringO to the target).
>
> > Can you suggest a better way ?
>
> You can overwrite some functions in order to omit attributes from a
> pickle. It's all documented athttp://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html#pickling-and-unpickling-no...

If there is no chance that some other thread could be accessing the
source object, can't the OP just do:
temp = source.stringio
del source.stringio
# make a pickle from source
source.stringio = temp
?

On 9/02/2009 8:51 PM, Barak, Ron wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> What I do now in preparation for pickling is:
>
> for_pickle_log_stream = LogStream(sac_log_file)
> for key in log_stream.__dict__:
> if key != "input_file":
> for_pickle_log_stream.__dict__[key] =
> log_stream.__dict__[key]
> del for_pickle_log_stream.__dict__["input_file"]
>
> (i.e., log_stream is the source instance, and for_pickle_log_stream is
> the target)
>
> So, it seems to be in agreement with your suggestion.

which was
"""
If there is no chance that some other thread could be accessing the
source object, can't the OP just do:
temp = source.stringio
del source.stringio
# make a pickle from source
source.stringio = temp
"""
which I regard as radically different to your approach; please explain
what you mean by "in agreement with".