Incompatible with pickle library

Pickle library won’t support the mock datetime objects:

In [1]: from freezegun import freeze_time

In [2]: import datetime

In [3]: import pickle

In [4]: import StringIO

In [5]: freezer = freeze_time("2012-12-12")

In [6]: freezer.start()

In [7]: f=StringIO.StringIO()

In [8]: pickle.dump(datetime.datetime.now(), f)
ERROR: An unexpected error occurred while tokenizing input
The following traceback may be corrupted or invalid
The error message is: ('EOF in multi-line statement', (156, 0))

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PicklingError                             Traceback (most recent call last)

/vagrant/<ipython console> in <module>()

/usr/lib/python2.7/pickle.pyc in dump(obj, file, protocol)
   1368 
   1369 def dump(obj, file, protocol=None):
-> 1370     Pickler(file, protocol).dump(obj)
   1371 
   1372 def dumps(obj, protocol=None):

/usr/lib/python2.7/pickle.pyc in dump(self, obj)
    222         if self.proto >= 2:
    223             self.write(PROTO + chr(self.proto))
--> 224         self.save(obj)
    225         self.write(STOP)
    226 

/usr/lib/python2.7/pickle.pyc in save(self, obj)
    329 
    330         # Save the reduce() output and finally memoize the object

--> 331         self.save_reduce(obj=obj, *rv)
    332 
    333     def persistent_id(self, obj):

/usr/lib/python2.7/pickle.pyc in save_reduce(self, func, args, state, listitems, dictitems, obj)
    398             write(NEWOBJ)
    399         else:
--> 400             save(func)
    401             save(args)
    402             write(REDUCE)

/usr/lib/python2.7/pickle.pyc in save(self, obj)
    284         f = self.dispatch.get(t)
    285         if f:
--> 286             f(self, obj) # Call unbound method with explicit self
    287             return
    288 

/usr/lib/python2.7/pickle.pyc in save_global(self, obj, name, pack)
    751                 raise PicklingError(
    752                     "Can't pickle %r: it's not the same object as %s.%s" %
--> 753                     (obj, module, name))
    754 
    755         if self.proto >= 2:

PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'datetime.datetime'>: it's not the same object as datetime.datetime

[nickwilliams-eventbrite]

I’m sorry for resurfacing this very old issue. Please ignore my stupidity. After extensive debugging, I discovered that an instance of the _freeze_time class was making its way into the dict I was trying to copy. Resolving that fixed my problem. Nothing to see here. Move along.

[nickwilliams-eventbrite]

Has this regressed in 0.3.x? I’m getting TypeError: can't pickle NotImplementedType objects when trying to copy.deepcopy any object with a faked date/time/datetime in it.