On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:00:17AM -0500, David Binger wrote: > This risk could be avoided, I think, by forcing copy_obj to actually > close the exporting connection (or at least to ghostify every loaded > object). With a few interface changes, ghostifying can be put into the export_object() function, so that shouldn't be a problem. It does mean that copy_obj() is somewhat Incidentally, to jump up a level... all this effort wouldn't be necessary if it was possible to conventionally pickle Persistent subclasses. Should I expect pickling to work? If not, what could I do to make it work? --amk