diff --git a/test/backend/test_pickle.py b/test/backend/test_pickle.py
index cbb0aa3782..7033a4dd6b 100644
--- a/test/backend/test_pickle.py
+++ b/test/backend/test_pickle.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import unittest, pickle, types, tracemalloc
 import numpy as np
 from tinygrad import Tensor, Device, TinyJit, Variable, dtypes
 from tinygrad.helpers import GlobalCounters, ContextVar, Context, DEV
-from tinygrad.uop.ops import PatternMatcher, UPat, UOp
+from tinygrad.uop.ops import PatternMatcher, UPat, UOp, deconstruct_function
 
 class TestPickle(unittest.TestCase):
   def test_pickle_code_object(self):
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ class TestPickle(unittest.TestCase):
     fxn = types.FunctionType(pickle.loads(code_str), globals())
     self.assertEqual(fxn(2), 4)
 
+  def test_deconstruct_function_nested_comprehension(self):
+    # pre PEP 709, each comprehension is its own code object, so dtypes here is referenced two code objects deep
+    def fxn(): return [[dtypes.int for _ in range(2)] for _ in range(2)]
+    self.assertEqual(types.FunctionType(*deconstruct_function(fxn))(), fxn())
+
   def test_pickle_pattern_matcher(self):
     pm = PatternMatcher([(UPat.cvar('x'), lambda x: x*2)])
     sink = UOp.const(2)
diff --git a/tinygrad/uop/ops.py b/tinygrad/uop/ops.py
index fadcdb866e..6611ef12bf 100644
--- a/tinygrad/uop/ops.py
+++ b/tinygrad/uop/ops.py
@@ -1423,9 +1423,9 @@ class UPat(OpMixin):
     return res
 
 def deconstruct_function(fxn:Callable) -> tuple:
-  new_globals = {k:v for k,v in fxn.__globals__.items() if k in fxn.__code__.co_names}
-  for co in fxn.__code__.co_consts:
-    if isinstance(co, types.CodeType): new_globals.update({k:v for k,v in fxn.__globals__.items() if k in co.co_names})
+  # globals can be referenced from arbitrarily nested code objects (comprehensions/lambdas, pre PEP 709)
+  def names(co:types.CodeType) -> set: return set(co.co_names).union(*(names(c) for c in co.co_consts if isinstance(c, types.CodeType)))
+  new_globals = {k:v for k,v in fxn.__globals__.items() if k in names(fxn.__code__)}
   # NOTE: optional round trip through pickle!
   assert fxn.__closure__ is None, "closures are not supported in pattern matchers"
   ret = fxn.__code__, new_globals, fxn.__name__, fxn.__defaults__