python confusion possibly related to pickle

[Dennis]

Never mind. I solved it. I had a file called pickle in the same folder I 
was in when I ran python, and that's the file it was trying to import.

Duh @ me :s


Dennis wrote:
> 
> I have a problem that I don't understand at all. I run a python script, 
> which uses pickle, and it fails. That alone is, perhaps, no big deal.
> 
> The problem that's got me annoyed is that after getting said error I 
> close the shell window, open a new one, run the python interpreter and 
> type "import pickle" and get the error that the script I'd run earlier 
> caused. Why is this ?
> 
> To my knowledge, once python stopped running it didn't store anything 
> related to the last time it was run.