On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Jason Benjamin <hexusne...@gmail.com> wrote: > If it has and 's' on the end it will only work on strings. *dumps* refers > to a string too.
Yes, I know. I have an object, which I pickle with dumps, which turns it into a string. Then I try to unpickle it with loads and I get that error. (Pdb) type(args.target) <type 'str'> (Pdb) pickle.loads(args.target) *** ImportError: Import by filename is not supported. > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, July 27, 2016, Jason Benjamin <hexusne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:25:43 -0400, Larry Martell wrote: >> >> > When I try and unpickle an object with pickle.loads it fails with: >> > >> > ImportError: Import by filename is not supported when unpickleing >> > >> > I've never used pickle before. Why do I get this and how can I fix it? >> >> Try using *pickle.load* instead of *pickle.loads*. pickle.loads is for >> strings. Retrieved from documentation: help(pickle) after importing >> pickle. > > > I am unpickling a string created with pickle.dumps -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
