Pickling TPOT objects

[QCaudron]

I wonder if there'd be any interest in generating something to pickle TPOT pipelines. Aside from the immediate use-case of "I want to import my pipeline and work with it more easily than with the .export()-generated .py file", it'd also help immensely in parallelising pipeline search, say if I wanted to find several different pipelines simultaneously and compare their scores afterwards. Admittedly, I haven't looked into the structure of TPOT pipelines, so I'm not sure how complex they are. Is this completely nontrivial ?

[rhiever]

There's definitely interest. I've discussed pickling TPOT pipelines with @rasbt in #2 if you'd like to join the conversation there.

[QCaudron]

Thanks ! Apologies, I hadn't seen that that discussion encompassed pickling. I'll close up over here.