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  r82937 | alexander.belopolsky | 2010-07-17 18:50:45 -0400 (Sat, 17 Jul 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #5180: Fixed a bug that prevented loading 2.x pickles in 3.x
  python when they contain instances of old-style classes.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/pickle.py b/Lib/pickle.py
index 7b48527..5275991 100644
--- a/Lib/pickle.py
+++ b/Lib/pickle.py
@@ -1034,19 +1034,15 @@ class _Unpickler:
     def _instantiate(self, klass, k):
         args = tuple(self.stack[k+1:])
         del self.stack[k:]
-        instantiated = False
-        if (not args and
-                isinstance(klass, type) and
-                not hasattr(klass, "__getinitargs__")):
-            value = _EmptyClass()
-            value.__class__ = klass
-            instantiated = True
-        if not instantiated:
+        if (args or not isinstance(klass, type) or
+            hasattr(klass, "__getinitargs__")):
             try:
                 value = klass(*args)
             except TypeError as err:
                 raise TypeError("in constructor for %s: %s" %
                                 (klass.__name__, str(err)), sys.exc_info()[2])
+        else:
+            value = klass.__new__(klass)
         self.append(value)
 
     def load_inst(self):
@@ -1239,11 +1235,6 @@ class _Unpickler:
         raise _Stop(value)
     dispatch[STOP[0]] = load_stop
 
-# Helper class for load_inst/load_obj
-
-class _EmptyClass:
-    pass
-
 # Encode/decode longs in linear time.
 
 import binascii as _binascii