dmitrey wrote: > This doesn't work for > costlyFunction2 = lambda x: 11 > as well; and it doesn't work for imap, apply_async as well (same > error). > So, isn't it a bug, or it can be somehow fixed? > Thank you in advance, D.
It's not a bug but a limitation of the pickle protocol. Pickle can't handle nested functions or classes. As a rule of thumb pickle can only handle functions and classes that are accessible via a dotted name, e.g. package.module.SomeClass.somefunction or anothermodule.afunction. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
