Python serialize lexical closures?

Question

Is there a way to serialize a lexical closure in Python using the standard library? pickle and marshal appear not to work with lexical closures. I don\'t really care about

Answer 1

Recipe 500261: Named Tuples contains a function that defines a class on-the-fly. And this class supports pickling.

Here's the essence:

result.__module__ = _sys._getframe(1).f_globals.get('__name__', '__main__')

Combined with @Greg Ball's suggestion to create a new class at runtime it might answer your question.