Question about pickle

[Phu Sam]

f.seek(0)  really does the trick.

Danke sehr,

Phu


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:

> Phu Sam wrote:
>
> > I have a method that opens a file, lock it, pickle.load the file into a
> > dictionary.
> > I then modify the status of a record, then pickle.dump the dictionary
> back
> > to the file.
> >
> > The problem is that the pickle.dump never works. The file never gets
> > updated.
> >
> > def updateStatus(self, fp, stn, status):
> >           f = open(fp, 'rw+')
> >           fcntl.flock(f.fileno(),fcntl.LOCK_EX | fcntl.LOCK_NB)
> >
> >           tb = pickle.load(f)
> >
> >           self.modifyDict(tb, stn, status)
>
>             f.seek(0)
>
> >           pickle.dump(tb, f)
> >
> >           fcntl.flock(f.fileno(),fcntl.LOCK_UN)
> >           f.close()
> >
> >
> > What could be the problem here?
>
> pickle.load() moves the file position to the end of the (first) pickle.
> pickle.dump() writes the modified dict starting at the current position.
> You
> end up with two versions of the dict, but you'll only ever read the first.
>
> The fix is to go back to the start of the file with f.seek().
>
> > What mode should I use to open the file to allow both pickle.load and
> > pickle.dump?
>
> Assuming that the file already exists when updateStatus() is invoked for
> the
> first time: "r+b".
>
> I usually open the file twice, once for reading and then for writing, but I
> guess that would interfere with locking.
>
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