[Twisted-Python] Re: pickle apparently doesn't go with curry ...

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

On Tuesday 12 November 2002 01:20 pm, Michael Hudson wrote:
> "Patrick K. O'Brien" <pobrien at orbtech.com> writes:
> > The short answer is that Python doesn't currently pickle nested
> > class and fucntion objects, i.e. those not defined at the top level
> > of the module.
>
> Unless something's changed since I last looked, you can't pickle
> functions at all.

Sure you can:

>>> import pickle
>>> pickle.dumps
<function dumps at 0x85f22cc>
>>> p = pickle.dumps(pickle.dumps)
>>> p
'cpickle\ndumps\np0\n.'
>>> dir
<built-in function dir>
>>> p = pickle.dumps(dir)
>>> p
'c__builtin__\ndir\np0\n.'
>>> 

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