On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Chris Torek <nos...@torek.net> wrote: > The real magic is in the unpickler, which has figured out how to > access shutil.copy without importing shutil into the global namespace:
So from this I gather that it doesn't actually pickle the code, just the name. Seems a little odd, but that would explain why this didn't really work: >>> def asdf(x): x.append(len(x)) return len(x) >>> pickle.dumps(asdf) b'\x80\x03c__main__\nasdf\nq\x00.' >>> asdf=pickle.dumps(asdf) >>> pickle.loads(asdf) b'\x80\x03c__main__\nasdf\nq\x00.' >>> asdf b'\x80\x03c__main__\nasdf\nq\x00.' I tried to do the classic - encode something, discard the original, attempt to decode. Didn't work. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list