[Grok-dev] pickling of dynamic classes

[Anurag Sharma]

Dear All,

This seems to be generally a problem with pickle but I hope I will be able
to get some inputs for the problem.

In one function of my grok.Application class I'm dynamically creating a
class

self.VarName = type('class name', (<base class>,), dict())
* <base class> does inherit grok.Container.*

While running this I'm getting following error:

Module ZODB.serialize:*422* in serialize
<http://localhost:8080/bizopine#>
>>  <http://localhost:8080/bizopine#>*return* self*.*_dump*(*meta*,* obj*.*
__getstate__*(**)**)*
Module ZODB.serialize:*431* in _dump        <http://localhost:8080/bizopine#>
>>  <http://localhost:8080/bizopine#>self*.*_p*.*dump*(*state*)*
*PicklingError: Can't pickle <class '<appname>.app.<class name>'>:
attribute lookup **<appname>.app.<class name>** failed*

Pickling documentation does say that :
What can be pickled and unpickledclasses that are defined at the top level
of a module

*But is it the problem here and if yes then what can be the possible
solution for this ?*

Thanks,
Anurag
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