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KeyError in pickle

Hi,

I am using pickle/unpickle to let my program save its documents to
disk. While this it worked stable for a long time, one of my users now
complained, that he had a file which can't be loaded.

The traceback is:

File "pickle.pyo", line 1374, in loads
File "pickle.pyo", line 858, in load
KeyError: 'A'
Does anybody know this problem. How this can happen and how can I
avoid it?

Thanks,
Christof
Jun 27 '08 #1
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christof wrote:
I am using pickle/unpickle to let my program save its documents to
disk. While this it worked stable for a long time, one of my users now
complained, that he had a file which can't be loaded.

The traceback is:

File "pickle.pyo", line 1374, in loads
File "pickle.pyo", line 858, in load
KeyError: 'A'
Does anybody know this problem. How this can happen and how can I
avoid it?
Is this reproducible? How? If not I would guess that the file is corrupted.

Peter
Jun 27 '08 #2
On 23 Mai, 10:48, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.dewrote:
christof wrote:
I am using pickle/unpickle to let my program save its documents to
disk. While this it worked stable for a long time, one of my users now
complained, that he had a file which can't be loaded.
The traceback is:
File "pickle.pyo", line 1374, in loads
File "pickle.pyo", line 858, in load
KeyError: 'A'
Does anybody know this problem. How this can happen and how can I
avoid it?

Is this reproducible? How? If not I would guess that the file is corrupted.

Peter
I found the problem: the user did a text export and gave the exported
file the wrong extension. So: the file was not valid python pickle. I
should add a type signature to fhe file format to avoid this.

Thanks anyway,
Christof
Jun 27 '08 #3

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