[Zope-dev] Strange serializing error when commiting

[Hermann Himmelbauer]

Hi,
In my zope3 tests, I set up some basic test data. After that, I'm calling 
transaction.commit(). However, I get the following traceback:


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Error in test /home/dusty/prog/zope3-inst/lib/python/zbsp/tests/../auth.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/local/home/dusty/python/Python-2.4.4/lib/python2.4/unittest.py", line 
251, in run
    self.setUp()
  File "/local/home/dusty/Zope-3.4.0c1/lib/python/zope/testing/doctest.py", 
line 2283, in setUp
    self._dt_setUp(test)
  
File "/local/home/dusty/Zope-3.4.0c1/lib/python/zope/app/testing/functional.py", 
line 739, in setUp
    kwsetUp(test)
  File "/home/dusty/prog/zope3-inst/lib/python/zbsp/tests/test_doc.py", line 
141, in setUp
    commit()
  File "/local/home/dusty/Zope-3.4.0c1/lib/python/transaction/_manager.py", 
line 93, in commit
    return self.get().commit()
  
File "/local/home/dusty/Zope-3.4.0c1/lib/python/transaction/_transaction.py", 
line 325, in commit
    self._commitResources()
  
File "/local/home/dusty/Zope-3.4.0c1/lib/python/transaction/_transaction.py", 
line 424, in _commitResources
    rm.commit(self)
  File "/local/home/dusty/Zope-3.4.0c1/lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py", line 
541, in commit
    self._commit(transaction)
  File "/local/home/dusty/Zope-3.4.0c1/lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py", line 
586, in _commit
    self._store_objects(ObjectWriter(obj), transaction)
  File "/local/home/dusty/Zope-3.4.0c1/lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py", line 
613, in _store_objects
    p = writer.serialize(obj)  # This calls __getstate__ of obj
  File "/local/home/dusty/Zope-3.4.0c1/lib/python/ZODB/serialize.py", line 
407, in serialize
    return self._dump(meta, obj.__getstate__())
  File "/local/home/dusty/Zope-3.4.0c1/lib/python/ZODB/serialize.py", line 
416, in _dump
    self._p.dump(state)
  File "copy_reg.py", line 69, in _reduce_ex
    raise TypeError, "can't pickle %s objects" % base.__name__
TypeError: can't pickle module objects
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Does anyone know what this means and what I can do against it?

Best Regards,
Hermann

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