On 20 Sep, 13:29, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > Dan wrote: > > Error unpickling > > Pickling from destructor... > > Exception exceptions.LookupError: 'unknown encoding: raw-unicode- > > escape' in <bound method PickleTest.__del__ of <__main__.PickleTest > > instance at 0xb7d3decc>> ignored > > > If I now change destruct to 0 the output is: > > > Error unpickling > > Pickling from __main__... > > Pickled just fine > > > Even more odd is that with an existing "pickle.txt" and destruct set > > to 1 it seems to work correctly: > > > Unpickled just fine > > Pickling from destructor... > > Pickled just fine > > > I'm running Python 2.5.4 on Debian Sid. > > > If anybody understands the error please enlighten me. > > __del__ is called in an indeterministic order. Most of the Python > environment is already gone when your __del__ method is called. The > pickle module doesn't have enough bits left to fulfill its job. > > Christian
Thank you both for your advice. Python is very new to me so still plenty to learn. I still think it's interesting that once the file exists there is no error generated but at least I know how it should be done. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
