[Tutor] pickle problem

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Am 12.10.2010 19:35, schrieb Roelof Wobben:
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> Hello,
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> I have this code :
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> import urllib
> import pickle
>
> image = urllib.URLopener()
> image.retrieve("http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/peak.html","banner.p" )
> plaatje = open("banner.p", "rb")
> plaatje2 = pickle.load(plaatje)
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> But it gives this output :
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "C:\Users\wobben\workspace\oefeningen\src\test2.py", line 7, in<module>
>      plaatje2 = pickle.load(plaatje)
>    File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 1378, in load
>      return Unpickler(file).load()
>    File "C:\Python27\lib\pickle.py", line 858, in load
>      dispatch[key](self)
> KeyError: '<'
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The last error indicates that a python module (pickle.py) tried to 
access a dictionary (dispatch) with the key "<". The expected value 
seems to be a callable as indicated by the (self). But there's no key 
"<" in it. So, probably, this module was called with improper data.
If you follow up your stack trace to where the error in your code 
occurs, you'll see that something is wrong with "unpickling" the data in 
your plaatje file.
Obviously, the data could be passed to the pickle module. So no read 
error on the file. What's left? There's probably an issue with the data 
in the file.
Now, you have to know that pickling reads and writes Python objects in a 
certain format. That means you can only load data with pickling, which 
was created by pickling.
Question: Is your data in "banner.p" properly formatted pickling data?

Note: There're different formats for pickling. Check the docs or a very 
nice source for examples of the Python Standard lib: PyMOTW (Google 
first hit); there's an article about pickling among others. But first 
should be the standard documentation.
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> What does this mean ?
>
> Roelof
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