Richard Oudkerk added the comment: When pickling a class (or instance of a class) there is already a check that the invariant
getattr(sys.modules[cls.__module__], cls.__name__) == cls holds. >>> import pickle >>> class A: pass ... >>> A.__module__ = 'nonexistent' >>> pickle.dumps(A()) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> _pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <class 'nonexistent.A'>: import of module 'nonexistent' failed ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17941> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com