import pickle from django.contrib.auth.models import User from django.test import TestCase from django.utils.functional import SimpleLazyObject class TestUtilsSimpleLazyObjectDjangoTestCase(TestCase): def test_pickle_py2_regression(self): # See ticket #20212 user = User.objects.create_user('johndoe', 'john@example.com', 'pass') x = SimpleLazyObject(lambda: user) # This would fail with "TypeError: can't pickle instancemethod objects", # only on Python 2.X. pickle.dumps(x) # Try the variant protocol levels. pickle.dumps(x, 0) pickle.dumps(x, 1) pickle.dumps(x, 2)