refactor: simplify attrs & fix its pickability (for e.g. dask.distributed) #3383
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This PR makes
.attrs
properly pickable again by getting rid of the weak reference (without loosing the intended behavior introduced in #3344).Without this PR we'll break any usage with dask.distributed as it needs to pickle all objects (including
.attrs
) for scheduling.Thus, we should get this PR in before a new awkward-array release.
(and also I think it's much cleaner now :-) )