[Python-Dev] Pickling objects that return string from reduce

[Bruce Christensen]

Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

> If  obj has no __module__ attribute (or if it is None), pickle
> (didn't check cPickle) also does
> 
> for n, module in sys.module.items():
>   if "module-ignored": continue
>   if getattr(module, result, None) is obj:
>      break # use n as module name
> 
> If obj does have a __module__ attribute, it uses __import__
> to import the module, just to make sure it gets into sys.modules.

What is "module-ignored" above? It's obviously not a literal string...

--Bruce