Just one change - pickler.load() doesn't take an argument - otherwise works perfectly! Thank-you.
... 6. Make multiple calls to dump() and load() using an explicit pickler, pickling directly to the file (not tested): import cPickle as pickle filename = 'lists.txt' fw = open(filename, 'wb') # Note open in binary mode for protocol 2 pickler = pickle.Pickler(fw, 2) for l in m: pickler.dump(l) fw.close() fr = open(filename, 'rb') pickler = pickle.Unpickler(fr) for i in range(3): line = pickler.load() print line fr.close() ... Dinesh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kent Johnson <kent37 <at> tds.net> Subject: Re: pickling, writing, reading individual lists from a file Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.tutor Date: 2008-11-03 11:42:28 GMT (2 hours and 16 minutes ago) On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Lie Ryan <lie.1296 <at> gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:20:47 -0800, Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: > >> I want to pickle a bunch of lists and write each list separately to a >> fileand then read them back. > To solve your problem, you have several alternative possibilities: 6. Make multiple calls to dump() and load() using an explicit pickler, pickling directly to the file (not tested): filename = 'lists.txt' fw = open(filename, 'wb') # Note open in binary mode for protocol 2 pickler = pickle.Pickler(fw, 2) for l in m: pickler.dump(l) fw.close() fr = open(filename, 'rb') pickler = pickle.Unpickler(fr) for i in range(3): line = pickler.load(fr) print line fr.close() Kent
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