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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