[Tutor] Need help printing a pickled data

[Alan Gauld]

On 25/06/13 19:30, Matt D wrote:

>> Does the file exist?
>> Does it have anything in it?
>> Does self.data exist - what does it look like if you print it?
>> Are there any error messages?
>>
> Yeh nothing as in an empty file.  The file is there but there is nothing
> written in it.

OK, Try deleting the file and rerunning the program.
Check that the file is recreated and is still empty.

> self.data exists.  that the problem if have is printing
> what is in it so i dont know what it looks like.

Try

print repr(self.data)

See if that helps.

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