[Python-ideas] pickling obscured function references

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/18/2014 1:41 AM, Henry Harrison wrote:

> I can't be the first to have thought of this, so there must be a reason
> this isn't the case, but I have to ask. Why is __main__ the fallback
> when pickle can't find a function reference?
>
> Instead of something like:
> os.path.basename(inspect.getsourcefile(func))[:-3]
>
> Thanks for humoring my curiosity,

A place to ask questions and 'humor curiosity' is python-list. 
Python-ideas is for ideas for improving future version of python.

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Terry Jan Reedy