Now Google is making a $350,000 donation to support some Python Software Foundation (PSF) projects that aim to improve the supply-chain security of the Python ecosystem.

PyPI or the Python Package Index is giving away 4,000 Google Titan security keys as part of its move to mandatory two-factor authentication (2FA) for critical projects built in the Python ...

The only time to pickle something is if you need to represent a non-string object on disk, but Python code is strings. I presume that the receiving program is basically calling eval (skt.recv ()).