Make some previously-unpickleable trait types pickleable. #457
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This PR makes traits of type
Instance,TypeandUUIDpickleable on Python 2.7; since Traits 5.0, these have been pickleable only on Python 3.This ameliorates (but doesn't really fix) the issues described in #452, and we may still want to look into other solutions to #452. Nevertheless, it seems like a useful minor improvement independent of any other fix applied for #452.
Some remaining awkwardnesses:
Rangetraits aren't currently pickleable on Python 2.7, for similar reasons. This can be fixed in a later PR.HasTraitsclass with aUUIDtrait in its__instance_traits__still can't be roundtripped through a pickle operation, because reconstruction runs into the read-only property of theUUIDtrait. For example, on this branch: