ImportError: Import by filename is not supported when unpickleing

[Jason Benjamin]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:25:43 -0400, Larry Martell wrote:

> When I try and unpickle an object with pickle.loads it fails with:
> 
> ImportError: Import by filename is not supported when unpickleing
> 
> I've never used pickle before. Why do I get this and how can I fix it?

Try using *pickle.load* instead of *pickle.loads*.  pickle.loads is for 
strings.  Retrieved from documentation: help(pickle) after importing 
pickle. 



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