On 11/18/2011 11:12 AM, Joe Batt wrote:
Hi All,Sorry to trouble you all again with more nooby problems! Only been programming a week so still all a haze especially since self taught….. I am opening a url and saving it to a file on my computer, then I am trying to pickle it. I have written the url file to a file on my computer then opened it and assigned the contents to a var 'filecontents' and tried to pickle it it is giving the error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/joebatt/Desktop/python/pickling puzzle 5.py", line 39, in<module> geturlfile(urlfile) File "/Users/joebatt/Desktop/python/pickling puzzle 5.py", line 28, in geturlfile pickle.dump(filecontents,pickledfile)TypeError: must be str, not bytes Yet I tested the variable filecontents using print (type(file contents)) and it is saying that it is a str yet the error seems to indicate it is a byte, can anyone point me in the right direction please? (I know my coding is very untidy and verbose, sorry I am very new and at the moment I have to think in baby steps with little knowledge!) Joe #################################################################### Pickle an object- ################################################################### import pickleimport urllib def geturlfile(urlfile):#gets the user URL from main opens it and saves it to var fileurl from urllib.request import urlopen fileurl=urlopen(urlfile)#opens the file on computer and writes the var fileurl to it html_file=open('///Users/joebatt/Desktop/python/puzzle5.txt','w') for line in fileurl.readlines(): linestring=line.decode("utf-8") #ensures written in string not byte html_file.write(linestring) html_file.close() #closes the puzzle file#just prints file to check its correct html_file=open('///Users/joebatt/Desktop/python/puzzle5.txt','r') filecontents=html_file.read() html_file.close() print (filecontents) print (type(filecontents)) #pickles the file filecontents containing the url file pickledfile=open('///Users/joebatt/Desktop/python/pickledpuzzle5.txt','w') pickle.dump(filecontents,pickledfile) pickledfile.close() return ()# Main programurlfile=input('Please input the URL ')geturlfile(urlfile)
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