the second meaning of the error message “insecure string pickle” inspired at least two different people independently of drawing it. i’d wish for a link to one of those pics in the docstring or message of the error. picture: http://i.imgur.com/To3DQ6J.jpg thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1fymy0/i_got_a_funny_error_trying_to_open_a_file_and/ we’d have to host the pic ourselves since imgur isn’t guaranteed to retain the picture (although that’d need many consecutive months of no one following the link)