Some weeks ago, here on the mailing list I read about picloud[1], a python library used for cloud-computing; I was impressed by its simplicity, here is an example:
>>>import cloud >>>def square(x): ... return x * x >>>cloud.call(square, 10) >>>cloud.result() 100 So, I tried to figure out how to achieve the same result, i.e. define a local generic function and send it somewhere for remote execution, and the get the result back. So I thought about serialization (pickle): I made a few tries and it seemed to work.. but I was wrong, because I never tried to load pickled data from another session different from the one used to pickle data itself. If you try and pickle a function, it is not pickled as a whole, indeed, once you unpickle it, it will raise an exception telling you that the target function was not found in the current module. So I'm here, with nothing in my hands; how would you implement this? Thanks in advance. [1] http://www.picloud.com/ -- Matteo Landi http://www.matteolandi.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
