cPickle

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Tue Oct 23 06:13:52 EDT 2001


On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:23:07AM -0700, Armin Steinhoff wrote:
> are there any know problems with cPickle which does prevent reading of a
> 'pickled' file from a Windows machine on a machine with an other operating
> system ??
>  (e.g. QNX6) 
> 
> Any ideas about the reasons ??

   On <rant>broken</rant> Windows OS you must open binary files in binary
modes (and cPickle fies are binary):

   infile = open(filename, 'rb')
   outfile = open(filename, 'wb')

Oleg.
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