On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:21:06 +0000, Alan Isaac wrote: > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: >> Pickles are *binary* files, not text files > > Actually not: > http://docs.python.org/lib/node316.html > > These were created with protocol 0.
Actually yes, the docs are wrong. It's a binary file with bytes constraint to ASCII values. Nevertheless it breaks if you don't open the files in binary mode and try to use it on a platform that treats line endings differently. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list