Python: can't pickle module objects error

Question

I\'m trying to pickle a big class and getting

TypeError: can\'t pickle module objects

despite looking around the web, I can\'t e

Answer 1

Python's inability to pickle module objects is the real problem. Is there a good reason? I don't think so. Having module objects unpicklable contributes to the frailty of python as a parallel / asynchronous language. If you want to pickle module objects, or almost anything in python, then use dill.

Python 3.2.5 (default, May 19 2013, 14:25:55) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.1 ((tags/Apple/clang-421.11.66))] on darwin
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>>> import dill
>>> import os
>>> dill.dumps(os)
b'\x80\x03cdill.dill\n_import_module\nq\x00X\x02\x00\x00\x00osq\x01\x85q\x02Rq\x03.'
>>>
>>>
>>> # and for parlor tricks...
>>> class Foo(object):
...   x = 100
...   def __call__(self, f):
...     def bar(y):
...       return f(self.x) + y
...     return bar
... 
>>> @Foo()
... def do_thing(x):
...   return x
... 
>>> do_thing(3)
103 
>>> dill.loads(dill.dumps(do_thing))(3)
103
>>> 

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