private attributes in __slots__ and pickle

i_hate_at_spams.biz
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:07:43 +0100

Hello,
I've just discovered the hard way that classes declaring private variables
(beginning with two underscore) can not be pickled ; double underscored
attributes are just not returned by __reduce__.

That's very annoying.

Objects should be serializable transparently so why such obstacles ?