dts: edtlib: allow pickling/unpickling EDT objects
We have a use case for saving the EDT object to be able to open it up
again later. It would be convenient to be able to do this with the
pickle module from stdlib.
The only thing stopping us from doing that appears to be the open
reference to sys.stderr that's held the edt object even after
EDT.__init__ exits. However, there doesn't seem to be a need to keep
holding on to this object, and in fact it would be a little bit nicer
to drop the reference in case something else (even in the same Python
process that created it originally) wants the EDT object around, but
might want the warn file closed if its refcount zeroes out.
Just drop the reference at the end of __init__ and make EDT._warn()
throw an exception if it's attempted to be used after the constructor
exits.
Make pickle-ability an API guarantee so we can treat any regressions
as bugs going forward.
Signed-off-by: Martí Bolívar <marti.bolivar@nordicsemi.no>
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