Bug#847497: ITP: cloudpickle -- Extended pickling support for Python objects

[Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org>

* Package name    : cloudpickle
  Version         : 0.2.1
  Upstream Author : PiCloud, Inc.
* URL             : https://github.com/cloudpipe/cloudpickle
* License         : BSD-3-Clause
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Extended pickling support for Python objects

 cloudpickle makes it possible to serialize Python constructs not supported
 by the default `pickle` module from the Python standard library.
 .
 cloudpickle is especially useful for cluster computing where Python
 expressions are shipped over the network to execute on remote hosts, possibly
 close to the data.
 .
 Among other things, `cloudpickle` supports pickling for lambda expressions,
 functions and classes defined interactively in the `__main__` module.

This is a dependency for dask.

It should be maintained through the Debian Python Modules Team.