problem with pickle

[K Gaur]

hello everybody
I've just started learning python . i stumbled upon this broad
spectrum function 'pickle'

but it is not getting executed as it should

this is what the python interpreter returns on giving the basic
command

>>>pickle.dump(x,f) where x is a tuple and f is a file object

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'pickle' is not defined

kindly elucidate what's wrong

thanks

[Lawrence Oluyede]

K Gaur <ga*******@gmail.comwrote:

this is what the python interpreter returns on giving the basic
command

>>pickle.dump(x,f) where x is a tuple and f is a file object

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'pickle' is not defined

kindly elucidate what's wrong

You should import the module in the local namespace before using it:

>>import pickle
pickle.dump

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