Fix pickling / deepcopy of returned datetime objects

Thanks to fogathmann and john@openlearning.com

Fixes #3

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index c35624d..284ab9f 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ Changes
 * Correctly raise ParseError for more invalid inputs (https://bitbucket.org/micktwomey/pyiso8601/issue/1/raise-parseerror-for-invalid-input) (thanks to manish.tomar)
 * Support more variations of ISO 8601 dates, times and time zone specs.
 * Fix microsecond rounding issues (https://bitbucket.org/micktwomey/pyiso8601/issue/2/roundoff-issues-when-parsing-decimal) (thanks to nielsenb@jetfuse.net)
+* Fix pickling and deepcopy of returned datetime objects (https://bitbucket.org/micktwomey/pyiso8601/issue/3/dates-returned-by-parse_date-do-not) (thanks to fogathmann and john@openlearning.com)
 
 0.1.4
 -----
diff --git a/iso8601/iso8601.py b/iso8601/iso8601.py
index b979f02..86c076b 100644
--- a/iso8601/iso8601.py
+++ b/iso8601/iso8601.py
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ class FixedOffset(tzinfo):
 
     """
     def __init__(self, offset_hours, offset_minutes, name):
+        self.__offset_hours = offset_hours  # Keep for later __getinitargs__
+        self.__offset_minutes = offset_minutes  # Keep for later __getinitargs__
         self.__offset = timedelta(hours=offset_hours, minutes=offset_minutes)
         self.__name = name
 
@@ -96,6 +98,9 @@ class FixedOffset(tzinfo):
             return other == self
         return False
 
+    def __getinitargs__(self):
+        return (self.__offset_hours, self.__offset_minutes, self.__name)
+
     def utcoffset(self, dt):
         return self.__offset
 
diff --git a/iso8601/test_iso8601.py b/iso8601/test_iso8601.py
index 4a0b05c..a696038 100644
--- a/iso8601/test_iso8601.py
+++ b/iso8601/test_iso8601.py
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 # coding=UTF-8
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
+import copy
 import datetime
+import pickle
 
 import pytest
 
@@ -60,3 +62,5 @@ def test_parse_valid_date(valid_date, expected_datetime):
     assert parsed.tzinfo == expected_datetime.tzinfo
     assert parsed == expected_datetime
     assert parsed.isoformat() == expected_datetime.isoformat()
+    copy.deepcopy(parsed)  # ensure it's deep copy-able
+    pickle.dumps(parsed)  # ensure it pickles
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