On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:05:37PM -0400, Matt D wrote:
> I have been unable to find a way to write pickled data to text file.
Normally you write pickled data to a file like this:
import pickle
data = {'something': 'goes', 'here': 42}
with open("/path/to/file/name.pickle", "rb") as f:
pickle.dump(data, f)
And then read it back again like this:
with open("/path/to/file/name.pickle") as f:
data = pickle.load(f)
You certainly shouldn't be writing pickle data to a log file! Firstly,
log files are usually opened in text mode, not binary mode, so it
probably won't work, and secondly even if it did work, you will be
dumping a load of pickled binary data into the middle of what should be
a text file. That's a bad idea. And even if it succeeded, what are you
going to learn from seeing a line like this:
\x80\x03}q\x00(X\x04\x00\x00\x00hereq\x01K*X\t\x00\x00\x00somethingq\x02X\x04\x00\x00\x00goesq\x03u.
in the middle of your log file? Log files are supposed to be for humans
to read, not for binary data like a pickle.
> My last attempt was to add the last two lines:
[...]
> I cant figure out why these last two line dont write to the .txt file
> after the program has received the pickled Python dictionary? Very
> stumped.
What does it do? Do you get an error?
--
Steven
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