[Tutor] problem with pickle using binary mode - re-submission (was problems with pickle)

[Michael Janssen]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Tony Cappellini wrote:

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> I keep getting EOFError when I open a file  that i saved using pickle.
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> It turns out that if  use binary mode when I pickle the file, I get the EOF
> error when loading it back in.
> However, if i use text mode, I don' tave this problem.
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> The file is less than 1000 bytes.
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> I'm running Windows 2000, and Python 2.2.2

on Windows you must open the file in "binary" mode:
"rb" and "wb"

other wise the OS will turn the newline-or-whatsever into
whatsever-else-i-have-forgotten. Socalled "binary" mode for "file/ open"
builtin surpresses this implicit newline conversion.

Michel
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> Is this a known issue with binary mode, or am I doing something wrong ?
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