When can a Python object be pickled

Question

I\'m doing a fair amount of parallel processing in Python using the multiprocessing module. I know certain objects CAN be pickle (thus passed as arguments in multi-p) and other

Answer 1

In addition to icedtrees' answer, also coming straight from the docs, you can customize and control how class instances are pickled and unpicked, using the special methods: object.__getnewargs_ex__(), object.__getnewargs__(), object.__getstate__(), object.__setstate__(state)