Pickle a file object

[Michael Stenner]

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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