Both marshal and pickle allow multiple objects to be serialized to the
same file-like object.
The pattern for deserializing an unknown number of serialized objects
looks like this:
objs = []
while True:
try:
objs.append(marshal.load(fobj)) # or objs.append(unpickler.load())
except EOFError:
break
This seems like a good use case for an generator:
def some_name(fobj):
while True:
try:
yield marshal.load(fobj) # or yield unpickler.load()
except EOFError:
raise StopIteration
1. Does this seem like a reasonable addition to the standard library?
2. Where should it go, and what should it be called?
>From an end-user point of view, this "feels" right:
import pickle
u = pickle.Unpickler(open('picklefile'))
for x in u:
print x
import marshal
for x in marshal.unmarshalled(open('marshalfile')):
print x
But I'm not hung up on the actual names or the use of sequence
semantics in the Unpickler case.
Incidentally, I know that pickle is preferred over marshal, but some
third-party tools (like the Perforce client) still use the marshal
library for serialization, so I've included it in the discussion
--
Tim Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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