[issue30275] pickle doesn't work in compile/exec

2017-05-05 Thread Brett Cannon
Brett Cannon added the comment: It won't work without the global namespace as pickle needs to be able to figure out where the function lives (the function itself doesn't get pickled, just the name of the function). -- nosy: +brett.cannon resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved st

[issue30275] pickle doesn't work in compile/exec

2017-05-04 Thread Jeff Zhang
New submission from Jeff Zhang: I want to use pickle in compile/exec, but it doesn't work for me. It only works when I use the global namespace. But I don't want to use global namespace, is there any way for that ? Thanks >>> a = compile("def f():\n\t'hello'\nimport pickle\npickle.dumps(f)",