Pickle question

[Gonçalo Rodrigues]

Hi,

Can I force the pickling/unpickling mechanism to call the class
constructor? I thought __getinitargs__ would do the job, but the
following shows it does not.
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>>> class Test(object):[/color][/color][/color]
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
super(Test, self).__init__( **kwargs)
self.__dict__.u pdate(kwargs)
def __getinitargs__ (self):
print "Calling __getinitargs__ ."
return ()
def __getattr__(sel f, attrib):
print "Getting %s." % attrib
raise AttributeError

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>>> a = Test(name = None)
>>> s = pickle.dumps(a)[/color][/color][/color]
Getting __getstate__.
Getting __slots__.[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> b = pickle.loads(s)[/color][/color][/color]
Getting __setstate__.[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
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I thought unpickling with __getinitargs__ present would go as:

1. Call class constructor with args read from pickle and return inst.
2. Update inst by either calling __setstate__ (if there is) or just
update inst.__dict__.

What am I missing?

With my best regards,
G. Rodrigues