Oct 14, 2026, 2:39 AMNot sure I can think of a single case where Python pickling has ever NOT gotten in my way... in any case, I have a proof-of-concept of unittest parallel that doesn't require a lot of code. Enough so that I'm willing to reimpl in other projects for now until I refine it.
Oct 14, 2026, 2:40 AMWhat do you mean I can't pickle OS resources? Why isn't that possible :P?
Oct 14, 2026, 7:09 PMhttps://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html#handling-stateful-objects
Discovered this by sheer accident...
Oct 14, 2026, 9:11 PMhttps://codeberg.org/cr1901/smolarith/src/commit/3f4964b4cb96d5ba95dfbcb01e29bee4d4aa5d44/tests/runner.py Okay here's a minimal, bespoke, NO AI SLOP/CLAUDE/WHATEVER, unittest-based tester that works in parallel, along with a CLI in __main__.py.
cc: @mcc since you seemed interested :D!
@cr1901 Pickle sendfile when