Zac Burns <zac...@gmail.com> writes: > I have a large pickle file, which happens to be a list with lots of > objects in it. > What sort of things can I do without unpickling the whole object?
If it's for some kind of data recovery of a busted file, you could code some awful hack to pull stuff out of the middle of the pickle, but that's not the idea. You may want the shelve module. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list