python confusion possibly related to pickle

[Dennis]

I have a problem that I don't understand at all. I run a python script,
which uses pickle, and it fails. That alone is, perhaps, no big deal.

The problem that's got me annoyed is that after getting said error I
close the shell window, open a new one, run the python interpreter and
type "import pickle" and get the error that the script I'd run earlier
caused. Why is this ?

To my knowledge, once python stopped running it didn't store anything
related to the last time it was run.

[Dennis]

Never mind. I solved it. I had a file called pickle in the same folder I
was in when I ran python, and that's the file it was trying to import.

Duh @ me :s
Dennis wrote:

>
I have a problem that I don't understand at all. I run a python script,
which uses pickle, and it fails. That alone is, perhaps, no big deal.

The problem that's got me annoyed is that after getting said error I
close the shell window, open a new one, run the python interpreter and
type "import pickle" and get the error that the script I'd run earlier
caused. Why is this ?

To my knowledge, once python stopped running it didn't store anything
related to the last time it was run.

[Derek Martin]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:28:34PM +0100, Dennis wrote:

The problem that's got me annoyed is that after getting said error I
close the shell window, open a new one, run the python interpreter
and type "import pickle" and get the error that the script I'd run
earlier caused. Why is this ?

Well, what's the error? Sounds like your system could be b0rked (or
at least your python installation)... but depending on the error,
there could be other explanations.

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[Dennis]

Derek Martin wrote:

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:28:34PM +0100, Dennis wrote:

>The problem that's got me annoyed is that after getting said error I
close the shell window, open a new one, run the python interpreter
and type "import pickle" and get the error that the script I'd run
earlier caused. Why is this ?

Well, what's the error? Sounds like your system could be b0rked (or
at least your python installation)... but depending on the error,
there could be other explanations.

Nah, just a case of being in a directory of my home directory that has a
file called pickle.py in it. That file has a known error. I then ran
python interactively and typed "import pickle". As a result I end up
importing the file in my current directory instead of the python module
I want to import.

I was just being daft :-D