[Python-Dev] doctest and pickle (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Jun 7 19:55:59 CEST 2013

On 06/07/2013 10:50 AM, Mark Janssen wrote:

>>> from pickle import dumps, loads >>> Fruit.tomato is loads(dumps(Fruit.tomato)) True Why are you using is here instead of ==?

I'm using is because I'm verifying that the instance returned by pickle.loads is the exact same object as the instance fed into pickle.dumps. Enum members should be singletons.

You're making a circular loop using "is"

Huh?

-- Ethan

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