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"# Using dill to pickle anything"
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"IPython.parallel doesn't do much in the way of serialization.\n",
"It has custom zero-copy handling of numpy arrays,\n",
"but other than that, it doesn't do anything other than the bare minimum to make basic interactively defined functions and classes sendable.\n",
"\n",
"There are a few projects that extend pickle to make just about anything sendable, and one of these is [dill](http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mmckerns/dill).\n",
"\n",
"To install dill:\n",
" \n",
" pip install --pre dill"
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"First, as always, we create a task function, this time with a closure"
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"def make_closure(a):\n",
" \"\"\"make a function with a closure, and return it\"\"\"\n",
" def has_closure(b):\n",
" return a * b\n",
" return has_closure"
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"closed = make_closure(5)"
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"import pickle"
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"Without help, pickle can't deal with closures"
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"But after we import dill, magic happens"
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"## Now use this in IPython.parallel"
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"As usual, we start by creating our Client and View"
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"from IPython import parallel\n",
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"Oops, no dice. For IPython to work with dill,\n",
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"This is equivalent to\n",
"\n",
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"Yay! Now we can use dill to allow IPython.parallel to send anything.\n",
"\n",
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"But wait, there's more!\n",
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"def outer(a):\n",
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"%%file testdill.py\n",
"from IPython.parallel import interactive\n",
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" a = 5\n",
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