saving a dataobject as a standard

[mvecsei]

I have created a subclass of DataObject for data processing and often need to share files containing a variable of this subclass. These files can not be restored by others, only if they have also installed all the libraries used for creating this subclass variable. In most cases this would be otherwise unnecessary as they usually just want to look at the data.

I have been circumventing this by creating a standard DataObject copy of the variable. I only copied the standard attributes (data, coordinates, info, etc.) into the copy and saved that variable into a file. This could be standardized in dataobject.save(), so that one could give an option of saving the variable as a standard DataObject.

[sandorzoletnik]

What you man is to have a flag in save like raw=True. This would save a single variable (or list, or what you give) without the part which tells flap where the data was coming form.