Can't pickle when using multiprocessing Pool.map()

Question

I\'m trying to use multiprocessing\'s Pool.map() function to divide out work simultaneously. When I use the following code, it works fine:

Answer 1

The problem is that multiprocessing must pickle things to sling them among processes, and bound methods are not picklable. The workaround (whether you consider it "easy" or not;-) is to add the infrastructure to your program to allow such methods to be pickled, registering it with the copy_reg standard library method.

For example, Steven Bethard's contribution to this thread (towards the end of the thread) shows one perfectly workable approach to allow method pickling/unpickling via copy_reg.