On Feb 18, 2014, at 8:46, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:

On 2/18/2014 1:41 AM, Henry Harrison wrote:

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I can't be the first to have thought of this, so there must be a reason this isn't the case, but I have to ask. Why is __main__ the fallback when pickle can't find a function reference?

Instead of something like: os.path.basename(inspect.getsourcefile(func))[:-3]

Thanks for humoring my curiosity,

A place to ask questions and 'humor curiosity' is python-list. Python-ideas is for ideas for improving future version of python.

I think he may have actually wanted to propose this change, but posted it in an overly tentative way so that if it was a bad idea (as, after all, most language change proposals are...), people would explain gently why it's a bad idea instead of just rejecting it out of hand. (I don't think it's a good idea to post that way on this list--in fact, it's likely to have the opposite of the intended effect--but I can understand why someone might expect it to be.)