pickle problems

I am wanting to pickle an object so that I can save it in a file, I seem to be having problems getting it to work, here's my code sample:

pickle.dump(conn_table, open(proj/daylight/gwcgi/drh25452/merlin/conn_tab(), 'w')

I wondered if anyone could see any problems or suddest anything else that could be causing this to generate errors?

What errors do you get? I can't help you if I don't know the error.

But I'm not sure if you can use proj/bla/conn_tab() as a vaild filename. It is a filename or a function call that would return a filename?

That's the problem, it's not generating any specific errors, it's just causing all of the code after it to fail, generating syntax errors.

I don't know if this will help you at all, I'm a bit confused myself.

Thanks

Okay, just try to open the file outside the pickle.dump function, and then pass the file object on to the function. I guess you should be able to see where the syntax error is caused.

But is this a filename: proj/daylight/gwcgi/drh25452/merlin/conn_tab(), or is it a function that's called to get a filename? If it's a filename, just put quotes around it to make it a string. If it's a function, I have no idea how this could be legal syntax for a function.

Try putting quotes around your filename.
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Michael T. Babcock

You actually have unbalanced parenthesis too, try rewriting the line to something like this:



Note: file() was introduced in Python 2.3 as the prefered way to open a file() opject.

Mark.

Since the original post was December 2001, I doubt that the poster is still worrying about this problem.

Dave

No, but it was easy enough to clear up. If only for mtb . So no real loss there.

Now, the jetlag has me and its time for bed me thinks.

Later Dave,

Mark.