How to pickle loggers?

Question

Working on a project that requires that I am able to pickle the container object at any point, since we expect it to fail on external conditions quite frequently and be able to

Answer 1

You could create a class that wraps the logger and implements __getstate__ and __setstate__.

This is pasted from http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html. The fh is handled in a way which may be similar to what you need.

#!/usr/local/bin/python

class TextReader:
    """Print and number lines in a text file."""
    def __init__(self, file):
        self.file = file
        self.fh = open(file)
        self.lineno = 0

    def readline(self):
        self.lineno = self.lineno + 1
        line = self.fh.readline()
        if not line:
            return None
        if line.endswith("\n"):
            line = line[:-1]
        return "%d: %s" % (self.lineno, line)

    def __getstate__(self):
        odict = self.__dict__.copy() # copy the dict since we change it
        del odict['fh']              # remove filehandle entry
        return odict

    def __setstate__(self, dict):
        fh = open(dict['file'])      # reopen file
        count = dict['lineno']       # read from file...
        while count:                 # until line count is restored
            fh.readline()
            count = count - 1
        self.__dict__.update(dict)   # update attributes
        self.fh = fh                 # save the file object