Fix webdataset pickling (#6972)

* fix webdataset pickling

* more general fix

src/datasets/exceptions.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 from . import config
 from .table import CastError
 from .utils.deprecation_utils import deprecated
-from .utils.track import TrackedIterable, tracked_list, tracked_str
+from .utils.track import TrackedIterableFromGenerator, tracked_list, tracked_str
 
 
 class DatasetsError(Exception):
@@ -65,9 +65,11 @@ def from_cast_error(
         )
         formatted_tracked_gen_kwargs: List[str] = []
         for gen_kwarg in gen_kwargs.values():
-            if not isinstance(gen_kwarg, (tracked_str, tracked_list, TrackedIterable)):
+            if not isinstance(gen_kwarg, (tracked_str, tracked_list, TrackedIterableFromGenerator)):
                 continue
-            while isinstance(gen_kwarg, (tracked_list, TrackedIterable)) and gen_kwarg.last_item is not None:
+            while (
+                isinstance(gen_kwarg, (tracked_list, TrackedIterableFromGenerator)) and gen_kwarg.last_item is not None
+            ):
                 gen_kwarg = gen_kwarg.last_item
             if isinstance(gen_kwarg, tracked_str):
                 gen_kwarg = gen_kwarg.get_origin()

src/datasets/utils/file_utils.py

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 from io import BytesIO
 from itertools import chain
 from pathlib import Path, PurePosixPath
-from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Generator, List, Optional, Tuple, TypeVar, Union
+from typing import Any, Dict, Generator, List, Optional, Tuple, TypeVar, Union
 from unittest.mock import patch
 from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse
 from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 from . import tqdm as hf_tqdm
 from ._filelock import FileLock
 from .extract import ExtractManager
-from .track import TrackedIterable
+from .track import TrackedIterableFromGenerator
 
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
@@ -1564,23 +1564,7 @@ def xxml_dom_minidom_parse(filename_or_file, download_config: Optional[DownloadC
             return xml.dom.minidom.parse(f, **kwargs)
 
 
-class _IterableFromGenerator(TrackedIterable):
-    """Utility class to create an iterable from a generator function, in order to reset the generator when needed."""
-
-    def __init__(self, generator: Callable, *args, **kwargs):
-        super().__init__()
-        self.generator = generator
-        self.args = args
-        self.kwargs = kwargs
-
-    def __iter__(self):
-        for x in self.generator(*self.args, **self.kwargs):
-            self.last_item = x
-            yield x
-        self.last_item = None
-
-
-class ArchiveIterable(_IterableFromGenerator):
+class ArchiveIterable(TrackedIterableFromGenerator):
     """An iterable of (path, fileobj) from a TAR archive, used by `iter_archive`"""
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -1645,7 +1629,7 @@ def from_urlpath(cls, urlpath_or_buf, download_config: Optional[DownloadConfig]
         return cls(cls._iter_from_urlpath, urlpath_or_buf, download_config)
 
 
-class FilesIterable(_IterableFromGenerator):
+class FilesIterable(TrackedIterableFromGenerator):
     """An iterable of paths from a list of directories or files"""
 
     @classmethod

src/datasets/utils/track.py

@@ -37,13 +37,26 @@ def __repr__(self) -> str:
             return f"{self.__class__.__name__}(current={self.last_item})"
 
 
-class TrackedIterable(Iterable):
-    def __init__(self) -> None:
+class TrackedIterableFromGenerator(Iterable):
+    """Utility class to create an iterable from a generator function, in order to reset the generator when needed."""
+
+    def __init__(self, generator, *args):
         super().__init__()
+        self.generator = generator
+        self.args = args
+        self.last_item = None
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        for x in self.generator(*self.args):
+            self.last_item = x
+            yield x
         self.last_item = None
 
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
         if self.last_item is None:
-            super().__repr__()
+            return super().__repr__()
         else:
             return f"{self.__class__.__name__}(current={self.last_item})"
+
+    def __reduce__(self):
+        return (self.__class__, (self.generator, *self.args))