Question

The following code:

with open("J:\\python\\.data") as data:
    self.data=pickle.load(data)

generated the following error:

File "J:\python\code.py", line 50, in get_events
    self.data=pickle.load(data)
TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface

I read that I might have to encode it, and I tried utf-8 and that didn’t work. What are the other formats? am I going in the right direction?

I forgot to mention that the object in .data is a list and was pickled using protocol 2. the var self.data is a list already

Answer 1

with open("J:\\python\\.data", "rb") as data:
    self.data=pickle.load(data)

As noted in the pickle docs:

This takes a binary file for reading a pickle data stream.

Thus you need to open it with mode "rb" for binary.