diff --git a/Lib/test/pickletester.py b/Lib/test/pickletester.py
index 1b58edb..e2d2580 100644
--- a/Lib/test/pickletester.py
+++ b/Lib/test/pickletester.py
@@ -248,6 +248,13 @@
         b = self.loads(s)
         self.assertEqual(a.__class__, b.__class__)
 
+    def test_structseq(self):
+        import time
+        t = time.localtime()
+        s = self.dumps(t)
+        u = self.loads(s)
+        self.assertEqual(t, u)        
+
 class AbstractPickleModuleTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_dump_closed_file(self):
diff --git a/Objects/structseq.c b/Objects/structseq.c
index 2ab9b52..e5f8e09 100644
--- a/Objects/structseq.c
+++ b/Objects/structseq.c
@@ -188,6 +188,27 @@
 	return result;
 }
 
+static PyObject *
+structseq_reduce(PyStructSequence* self)
+{
+	PyObject* tup;
+	long n_fields;
+	int i;
+	
+	n_fields = REAL_SIZE(self);
+	tup = PyTuple_New(n_fields);
+	if (!tup) {
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	for (i = 0; i < n_fields; i++) {
+		Py_INCREF(self->ob_item[i]);
+		PyTuple_SET_ITEM(tup, i, self->ob_item[i]);
+	}
+	
+	return Py_BuildValue("(O(O))", self->ob_type, tup);
+}
+
 static PySequenceMethods structseq_as_sequence = {
 	(inquiry)structseq_length,
 	(binaryfunc)structseq_concat,           /* sq_concat */
@@ -199,6 +220,12 @@
 	(objobjproc)structseq_contains,	        /* sq_contains */
 };
 
+static PyMethodDef structseq_methods[] = {
+	{"__reduce__", (PyCFunction)structseq_reduce, 
+	 METH_NOARGS, NULL},
+	{NULL, NULL}
+};
+
 static PyTypeObject _struct_sequence_template = {
 	PyObject_HEAD_INIT(&PyType_Type)
 	0,					/* ob_size */
@@ -228,7 +255,7 @@
 	0,					/* tp_weaklistoffset */
 	0,					/* tp_iter */
 	0,					/* tp_iternext */
-	0,	             			/* tp_methods */
+	structseq_methods,      		/* tp_methods */
         NULL,			             	/* tp_members */
 	0,			          	/* tp_getset */
 	0,					/* tp_base */
@@ -282,4 +309,6 @@
 		       PyInt_FromLong((long) desc->n_in_sequence));
 	PyDict_SetItemString(dict, real_length_key, 
 		       PyInt_FromLong((long) n_members));
+	PyDict_SetItemString(dict, "__safe_for_unpickling__", 
+		       PyInt_FromLong(1));
 }