problem with pickle and tkinter

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To learn tkinter I'm making a simple Go game program. I now would like to be able to save a game using pickle, but when I try to pickle my GoBoardModel object I get:

PicklingError: Can't pickle 'tkapp' object: <tkapp object at 0x01FCB090>

I guess that comes from the fact that while the GUI and the model of the go board are quite well separated, the model still has a reference to the view in order to push some stuff, so pickle probably tries to pickle some tk stuff. Of course I would like to pickle just the model, so is there any way to tell pickle not to care about that reference to the GUI? Or another way to go around the problem?

I know I could just get rid of this reference, but I'm here to learn :)

bluepnume · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-12 01:46:35Z

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Yep, look into the __getstate__ method.

For example, if you want pickle to ignore the 'view' attribute, you'd do the following:

class Whatever(object):

  def __getstate__(self):
    state = self.__dict__.copy()
    del state['view']
    return state

answered May 12, 2011 at 1:46

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Matt Popovich Over a year ago

Thank you! How can we then overload __setstate__ to load this smaller dictionary?

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