[Aki Niimura] > I started to use pickle to store the latest user settings for the tool > I wrote. It writes out a pickled text file when it terminates and it > restores the settings when it starts. ... > I guess DOS text format is creating this problem.
Yes. > My question is "Is there any elegant way to deal with this?". Yes: regardless of platform, always open files used for pickles in binary mode. That is, pass "rb" to open() when reading a pickle file, and "wb" to open() when writing a pickle file. Then your pickle files will work unchanged on all platforms. The same is true of files containing binary data of any kind (and despite that pickle protocol 0 was called "text mode" for years, it's still binary data). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
