v2 Tweet, unable to unpickle using dill, max recursion reached

Using the new v2 twitter API and version 4.5.0 of Tweepy, with version 0.3.4 of dill, the following code results in a RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded:

query = 'your search here'

import tweepy
from twitter_credentials import bearer_token
client = tweepy.Client(bearer_token=bearer_token, return_type = tweepy.Response)

search_result = client.search_recent_tweets(query = query, max_results=10)

t = search_result.data[0]

import dill
serialized = dill.dumps(t)

u = dill.loads(serialized)

The problem seems to be in __getattr__:

  File "/Users/username/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tweepy/mixins.py", line 30, in __getattr__
    return self.data[name]
  [Previous line repeated 992 more times]

It sure would be dandy to be able to serialize using dill!

[michaelmilleryoder]

@Harmon758 Setting return_type=dict when I initialize the tweepy Client should work! I didn’t know about that option–thanks.

[michaelmilleryoder]

I also got this error while trying to pickle Response objects. I ended up saving out each part of Response objects (.data, .includes, .errors) as JSON lines files, but it would have saved me time to simply be able to pickle them all.