Hi all
I have (my mistake) overwritten the beginning of a file where a long
dictionary was pickled with another (pickled and much smaller) dictionary.
Since only 10% or so of the original and important data was overwritten, I
would be happy if I could somehow recover at least the part that I can
still see.
The situation is now the following. If I open the file in vi I can see :
(dp0
S'011'
p1
(dp2
S'profile'
p3
(lp4
F3.125
aF5.625
aF8.59375
....
#uninteresting data
....
p460
sg36
g6
sg37
S'0:00'
p461
sg39
(lp462
sg41
g6
ss. #after that line starts the data I need
aF10.0
aF10.3125
aF8.125
aF4.84375
aF4.21875
aF5.9375
.....# all data is here until the end
g4
sg215
S'12:26'
p3376
ss.
# end of old important data
Can anybody give an indication on how to do that? I tried to understand
how pickle puts these numbers on the different fields and remove the
unimportant beginning of the file to replace it with something that would
allow to unpickle the data, but did not really succeed. Read the
source (and understand it) is far beyond my python skills...
Any hint or pointer would be appreciated.
Regards,
Maurizio 1 2771
Each line you quote as "interestin g" is an item in a list, denoted by
the line starting with 'a', after that is the type notation ('F', for
float), so if that's all the data you need, you can just do:
values = []
for line in lines:
line = line.strip()
assert line.startswith ( 'aF' ), """Line %r doesn't start with
aF"""%(line,)
value = float(line[2:])
values.append( value )
doSomethingWith Values( values )
You can see the formats quite simply by using pickle at the command line:
In [3]: pickle.dumps( [ 2.0, 3.0] )
Out[3]: '(lp0\nF2.0\naF 3.0\na.'
HTH,
Mike
Maurizio Berlusconi wrote: Hi all
I have (my mistake) overwritten the beginning of a file where a long dictionary was pickled with another (pickled and much smaller) dictionary. Since only 10% or so of the original and important data was overwritten, I would be happy if I could somehow recover at least the part that I can still see.
....
ss. #after that line starts the data I need aF10.0 aF10.3125 aF8.125 aF4.84375 aF4.21875 aF5.9375 ....# all data is here until the end g4 sg215 S'12:26' p3376 ss. # end of old important data
Can anybody give an indication on how to do that? I tried to understand how pickle puts these numbers on the different fields and remove the unimportant beginning of the file to replace it with something that would allow to unpickle the data, but did not really succeed. Read the source (and understand it) is far beyond my python skills...
Any hint or pointer would be appreciated.
Regards,
Maurizio
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