How can I pickle a dynamically created nested class in python?

Question

I have a nested class:

class WidgetType(object):
    
    class FloatType(object):
        pass
    
    class TextType(object):
        pass

.. and

Answer 1

If you use dill instead of pickle, it works.

>>> import dill
>>> 
>>> class WidgetType(object):
...   class FloatType(object):
...     pass
...   class TextType(object):
...     pass
... 
>>> class ObjectToPickle(object):
...   def __init__(self):
...     self.type = WidgetType.TextType
... 
>>> x = ObjectToPickle()
>>> 
>>> _x = dill.dumps(x)
>>> x_ = dill.loads(_x)
>>> x_
<__main__.ObjectToPickle object at 0x10b20a250>
>>> x_.type

Get dill here: https://github.com/uqfoundation/dill