register_pickle_by_value appears to not deliver monkeypatches to receiver

[sgillies]

Should I expect register_pickle_by_value() to deliver monkeypatches? I don't know if what I'm observing is a bug or only missing functionality.

I have two python environments, A and B. Each has cloudpickle 3.1.2 installed and also a package that I'm developing at work. Let's call it "tdb". I run a script in environment A that looks like this:

import sys

import cloudpickle
import tdb

# monkeypatch an attribute of tdb.
tdb.my_function = lambda *args, **kwargs: ["fake", "values"]

def func():
    return tdb.my_function()

assert func() == ["fake", "values"]

cloudpickle.register_pickle_by_value(tdb)
pickle_data = cloudpickle.dumps(func, protocol=4)
sys.stdout.buffer.write(pickle_data)

I'm piping the output to a script that runs in environment B

import pickle
import sys

pickle_data = sys.stdin.buffer.read()
print(pickle_data)

func = pickle.loads(pickle_data)
print(func())

But I see the original tdb.my_function being called in environment B, not my monkeypatch.

The odd thing is that I can see lambda when I print the pickle stream in environment B. It's there in some sense, but isn't being understood on the receiver side.