[Tutor] pickling codecs

[Dinesh B Vadhia]

I use codecs to retain consistent unicode/utf-8 encoding and decoding for reading/writing to files.  Should the codecs be applied when using the pickle/unpickle function?  For example, the standard syntax is:

# pickle object
f = open(object, 'wb')
pickle.dump(object, f, 2)
 
# unpickle object
f = open(object, 'rb')
object= pickle.load(f)
 
or should it be:

# pickle object
f = codecs.open(object, 'wb', 'utf-8')
pickle.dump(object, f, 2)


# unpickle object
f = codecs.open(object, 'rb', 'utf-8')
object= pickle.load(f)

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