id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
16563	Error pickling request.user	zero.fuxor@…	nobody	"trying to pickle a request.user in trunk raises: TypeError, can't pickle function objects
Looking it shows that request.user is a SimpleLazyObject and it is a <lambda>, so it can not be pickled.

{{{
try:
    import cPickle as pickle
except:
    import pickle


def some_view(request):
    pickle.dumps(request.user) # raise type error
    …
}}}"	Bug	closed	contrib.auth	1.3	Release blocker	fixed		Torsten Bronger kmike84@…	Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0