[New-bugs-announce] [issue40074] pickle module dump and load: add support for string file names

[Diego Palacios]

New submission from Diego Palacios <diepala at gmail.com>:

The pickle functions dump and load are often used in the following lines:

```python
import pickle

fname = '/path/to/file.pickle'

with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
    object = pickle.load(f)
```

The load function should also accept a file name (string) as input and automatically open and load the object. The same should happen for the dump function. This would allow a simple use of the functions:

```python
object = pickle.load(fname)
```

This is what many users need when reading and storing and object from/to a file.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 365061
nosy: Diego Palacios
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: pickle module dump and load: add support for string file names
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.9

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