I would like to be able to pickle a function or class from within __main__, with the obvious problem (mentioned in other posts) that the pickled function/class is in the __main__ namespace and unpickling in another script/module will fail.

I have the following solution which works, is there a reason this should not be done?

The following is in myscript.py:

import myscript
import pickle

if __name__ == "__main__":               

    print pickle.dumps(myscript.myclass())

else:

    class myclass:
        pass

edit: The unpickling would be done in a script/module that has access to myscript.py and can do an import myscript. The aim is to use a solution like parallel python to call functions remotely, and be able to write a short, standalone script that contains the functions/classes that can be accessed remotely.

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