unpickle from URL problem

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:58:51 +0000, Alan Isaac wrote:

> I am on a Windows box.
> 
> I pickle a tuple of 2 simple objects with the pickle module.
> It pickles fine.  It unpickles fine.
> 
> I upload to a server.
> I try to unpickle from the URL.  No luck.  Try it:
> x1, x2 = pickle.load(urllib.urlopen('http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/hw/example1'))
> 
> I change the filetype to unix.  I upload again.
> I try to unpickle from the URL.  Now it works.  Try it:
> x1, x2 = pickle.load(urllib.urlopen('http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/hw/example2'))
> 
> Why the difference?

Pickles are *binary* files, not text files, so make sure you always treat
them as binary, e.g. opening the files with mode 'rb' and 'wb' and don't
transmit them in text mode over FTP etc.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch