[Python-3000] help(pickle) fails: unorderable types: type() < type() (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Sep 11 19:52:19 CEST 2007


On 9/11/07, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl> wrote:

Python 3.0a1 (py3k, Sep 8 2007, 15:57:56) [GCC 4.2.1 20070719 (release) (PLD-Linux)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pickle >>> help(pickle) Traceback (most recent call last): [...] File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/pydoc.py", line 954, in repr1 return getattr(self, methodname)(x, level) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/repr.py", line 78, in reprdict for key in islice(sorted(x), self.maxdict): TypeError: unorderable types: type() < type()

Mind reporting this on bugs.python.org?

BTW, is cPickle officially gone and should pickle be used instead?

Yes. There will be a transparent accellerator written in C, but the public API will be called "pickle".

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