Which program is pickling and why? That seems like a very strange thing to do in this situation. The only time to pickle something is if you need to represent a non-string object on disk, but Python ...

Since version 2.4 pylint has support for reading files from memory (stdin) by using the --from-stdin cmd line option --from-stdin Interpret the stdin as a python script, whose filename needs to be ...

Graceful Shutdown: Call stop_shell() to terminate the subprocess and background threads safely. When using subprocess.Popen, shells might keep open in the background, even after calling .kill() or ...