[issue11299] Allow deepcopying and pickling paused generators

[Alexandre Vassalotti]

Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre at peadrop.com> added the comment:

The value of the instruction pointer depends on the byte-code. So it's not portable either.

But, the bigger issue is the fact generator objects do not have names we can refer to, unlike top-level functions and classes which pickle supports. Similarly, we can't pickle lambdas and nested-functions for this exact reason.

Personally, I haven't found a way around this. But, that doesn't mean there isn't one. If you find one, I will more than pleased to review it.

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