text: """
  These functions are helpers for AskTellParallelDriver that have been moved into their own file to reduce the
  amount of dependencies pickled and unpickled when interacting with the parallel driver's pool.
  """
  
  __objective = None
  
  
  def make_initializer(objective):
      """
      Wraps the objective in a function to initialize a pool
      """
      return lambda: set_objective(objective)
  
  
  def set_objective(objective):
      """
      Sets the objective for (this process in) the pool
      """
      global __objective
      __objective = objective
  
  
  def evaluate(candidate):
      """
      Evaluates the given candidate
      """
      global __objective
      return __objective(candidate)
  
  # def flatten_list(nested_list: [[any]]) -> [any]:
  #     result = []
  #     for sublist in nested_list:
  #         result.extend(sublist)
  #     return result
  