Load a list subset with pickle?

[Peng Yu]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Gabriel Genellina
<gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> En Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:05:18 -0300, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> escribió:
>
>> How do I determine if I have loaded all the elements? I use the
>> following code. I'm wondering if there is any better solution than
>> this.
>>
>>
>> ###############
>> import pickle
>>
>> alist = [1, 2.0, 3, 4+6j]
>>
>> output=open('serialize_list.output/serialize_list.pkl', 'wb')
>> for e in alist:
>>  pickle.dump(e, output)
>> output.close()
>>
>> input=open('serialize_list.output/serialize_list.pkl', 'rb')
>>
>> try:
>>  while 1:
>>    e = pickle.load(input)
>>    print e
>> except EOFError:
>>  pass
>
> Pickle the list length before its contents.

Suppose that the list length was not in
'serialize_list.output/serialize_list.pkl'. Is try-except block the
best solution?