[issue9276] pickle should support methods

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> To have a non-hackish patch we need a non-hackish idea. The
> `.__parent_class__` idea looks hackish to me, but now that I think
> about it, how is it more hackish than a function's `.__module__`
> attribute?

Not much, agreed. You might want to call it `__namespace__` instead if
you want it to look cleaner :)
(and it could be useful for other purposes such as e.g. introspection)

But by "hackish" I meant the possible implementation of it, not the idea
itself. That's what a patch would help assess.

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