diff --git a/Lib/_pyio.py b/Lib/_pyio.py
index 83bce70..87c833c 100644
--- a/Lib/_pyio.py
+++ b/Lib/_pyio.py
@@ -747,6 +747,10 @@
     def mode(self):
         return self.raw.mode
 
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        raise TypeError("can not serialize a '{0}' object"
+                        .format(self.__class__.__name__))
+
     def __repr__(self):
         clsname = self.__class__.__name__
         try:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_io.py b/Lib/test/test_io.py
index 680e36d..91dd803 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_io.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_io.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 import signal
 import errno
 import warnings
+import pickle
 from itertools import cycle, count
 from collections import deque
 from test import support
@@ -2566,6 +2567,23 @@
         self._check_warn_on_dealloc_fd("r")
 
 
+    def test_pickling(self):
+        # Pickling file objects is forbidden
+        for kwargs in [
+                {"mode": "w"},
+                {"mode": "wb"},
+                {"mode": "wb", "buffering": 0},
+                {"mode": "r"},
+                {"mode": "rb"},
+                {"mode": "rb", "buffering": 0},
+                {"mode": "w+"},
+                {"mode": "w+b"},
+                {"mode": "w+b", "buffering": 0},
+            ]:
+            for protocol in range(pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL + 1):
+                with self.open(support.TESTFN, **kwargs) as f:
+                    self.assertRaises(TypeError, pickle.dumps, f, protocol)
+
 class CMiscIOTest(MiscIOTest):
     io = io