pickle

[Shi Mu]

I got a sample code and tested it but really can not understand the
use of pickle and dump:

import pickle
f = open("try.txt", "w")
pickle.dump(3.14, f)
pickle.dump([1,2,3,4], f)
f.close()

[marduk]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 23:55 -0700, Shi Mu wrote:

I got a sample code and tested it but really can not understand the
use of pickle and dump:

import pickle
f = open("try.txt", "w")
pickle.dump(3.14, f)
pickle.dump([1,2,3,4], f)
f.close()
The pickle module "serializes" python objects. You can "dump" a python
object that can later be loaded:
x = complex(2,3.5)
f = open("cnumber.pickle", "w")
import pickle
pickle.dump(x, f)
f.close()
y = pickle.load(file("cnumber.pickle", "r"))
y

(2+3.5j)

[Shi Mu]

what does the following code mean?

y = pickle.load(file("cnumber.pickle", "r"))

also, I can not understand "f" in pickle.dump(x, f)

On 10/25/05, marduk <us****@marduk.letterboxes.org> wrote:

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 23:55 -0700, Shi Mu wrote:

I got a sample code and tested it but really can not understand the
use of pickle and dump:

>> import pickle
>> f = open("try.txt", "w")
>> pickle.dump(3.14, f)
>> pickle.dump([1,2,3,4], f)
>> f.close()
The pickle module "serializes" python objects. You can "dump" a python
object that can later be loaded:
x = complex(2,3.5)
f = open("cnumber.pickle", "w")
import pickle
pickle.dump(x, f)
f.close()
y = pickle.load(file("cnumber.pickle", "r"))
y

(2+3.5j)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Shi Mu wrote:

what does the following code mean?

y = pickle.load(file("cnumber.pickle", "r"))
open the file "cnumber.pickle" for reading, pass the file handle to
the pickle.load function, and store the result in the "y" variable.
also, I can not understand "f" in pickle.dump(x, f)

the second argument to pickle is a file handle, opened for writing.
pickle.dump will save the "pickled data" to that file.

</F>

[Steve Holden]

Shi Mu wrote:

what does the following code mean?

y = pickle.load(file("cnumber.pickle", "r"))
Take it by parts:

file("cnumber.pickle", "r")

returns a file object as a result of opening the "cnumber.pickle" file,
which is presumably a pickle someone wrote earlier.

So

pickle.load(file("cnumber.pickle", "r"))

returns the first object stored in that pickle file.

also, I can not understand "f" in pickle.dump(x, f)
The beginning of the docs on pickle usage says:

"""dump( obj, file[, protocol[, bin]])

Write a pickled representation of obj to the open file object file."""

Isn't this reasopnably self-explanatory?

regards
Steve
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