[Tutor] Stacks and Stack underflow/Stack overflow

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sun Nov 20 01:09:40 CET 2011


Walter Prins wrote:

> pickle files are binary files and you probably opened it as a text file.
> See here: http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/functions.html#open

Not so. Pickle protocol 0 is text, and it happens to be the default 
protocol used if you don't instruct it different. So by default, pickles 
are text unless you specifically use a binary protocol.



-- 
Steven



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