Cannot pickle Ellipsis objects #54
Description
Appears that I cannot pickle an Ellipsis object, but I can pickle slices. It would be nice to have support for pickling Ellipsis. FWIW, this is solved by dill.
>>> import cloudpickle
>>> cloudpickle.dumps(Ellipsis)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-cc84d30bf9cd> in <module>()
----> 1 cloudpickle.dumps(Ellipsis)
/zopt/conda/envs/nanshenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudpickle/cloudpickle.pyc in dumps(obj, protocol)
600
601 cp = CloudPickler(file,protocol)
--> 602 cp.dump(obj)
603
604 return file.getvalue()
/zopt/conda/envs/nanshenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudpickle/cloudpickle.pyc in dump(self, obj)
105 self.inject_addons()
106 try:
--> 107 return Pickler.dump(self, obj)
108 except RuntimeError as e:
109 if 'recursion' in e.args[0]:
/zopt/conda/envs/nanshenv/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
/zopt/conda/envs/nanshenv/lib/python2.7/pickle.pyc in save(self, obj)
304 reduce = getattr(obj, "__reduce_ex__", None)
305 if reduce:
--> 306 rv = reduce(self.proto)
307 else:
308 reduce = getattr(obj, "__reduce__", None)
TypeError: can't pickle ellipsis objects