Pickle a file object
Guyon Morée
gumuz at looze.net
Tue Dec 3 13:00:23 EST 2002
great!
thanx
guyon
"Michael Stenner" <mstenner at phy.duke.edu> wrote in message
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> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:19:55PM +0000, Guyon Morée wrote:
> > and lets'say i'd want to embed binary files, images (eg. jpg) into my
file?
> > not storing a link to a location on the harddrive.
> >
> > can i read and store the contents of binary files?
>
> Absolutely. When you do
>
> foo = file_object.read()
>
> then foo is just a string. Strings can contain binary data in python
> just fine, and strings are pickleable.
>
> -Michael
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