[issue40074] pickle module dump and load: add support for string file names

Change by Serhiy Storchaka : -- resolution: -> rejected stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue40074] pickle module dump and load: add support for string file names

Grégory Starck added the comment: FWIW -1 as well, for same reasons. -- nosy: +gstarck ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue40074] pickle module dump and load: add support for string file names

Irit Katriel added the comment: -1. This is basically a request to add API to the stdlib to turn a two-liner into a one-liner. -- nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker ___

[issue40074] pickle module dump and load: add support for string file names

Diego Palacios added the comment: In this case two new functions should be added to the pickle function. I think they would be very useful and many users would make use of them. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue40074] pickle module dump and load: add support for string file names

Eric V. Smith added the comment: I think it's a bad design to overload a function based on the type of am argument. I realize the stdlib does this in a number of places, for older functions. I don't think we'd add such a function today. I might not object to a new pickle API to do this, but

[issue40074] pickle module dump and load: add support for string file names

New submission from Diego Palacios : The pickle functions dump and load are often used in the following lines: ```python import pickle fname = '/path/to/file.pickle' with open(fname, 'rb') as f: object = pickle.load(f) ``` The load function should also accept a file name (string) as