From ec6c1bd0491590f3c0e2908a7b2dfb91b6acdae9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre Glaser Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 15:51:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-37209: Add pickle entry for 3.8 whatsnew (GH-14503) --- Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index 5aab191f1a4..61e1d3da989 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -625,6 +625,20 @@ to a path. (Contributed by Joannah Nanjekye in :issue:`26978`) +pickle +------ + +Reduction methods can now include a 6th item in the tuple they return. This +item should specify a custom state-setting method that's called instead of the +regular ``__setstate__`` method. +(Contributed by Pierre Glaser and Olivier Grisel in :issue:`35900`) + +:mod:`pickle` extensions subclassing the C-optimized :class:`~pickle.Pickler` +can now override the pickling logic of functions and classes by defining the +special :meth:`~pickle.Pickler.reducer_override` method. +(Contributed by Pierre Glaser and Olivier Grisel in :issue:`35900`) + + plistlib --------