How to check if an object is pickleable

Question

I have a list of objects of various types that I want to pickle. I would like to pickle only those which are pickleable. Is there a standard way to check if an object is of

Answer 1

dill allows for pickling more things that the builtin pickle.

This should do what you what, I think:

def is_picklable(obj):
  try:
    pickle.dumps(obj)

  except pickle.PicklingError:
    return False
  return True