From: spamfranke at bigfoot.de (Stefan Franke)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:29:43 GMT
Subject: unpickling an NT object in Solaris?
References: <dozier-2004991057490001@client-151-200-124-68.bellatlantic.net>
Message-ID: <371cb8f0.64496430@news.omnilink.de>
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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:57:49 -0400, dozier at bellatlantic.net (Bill Dozier) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I created an object running python on NT and pickled it. I have no problem
>unpickling on NT, but when I ftp'd the file over to Solaris, I get an
>ImportError exception ("No module named __main__^M") when I try to
>unpickle it.
>

Pickling uses a text format which should be platform independent. 

My guess: Did you transfer via FTP in text mode? In that case, line 
endings get converted. "__main__^M" seems to point at this.

Stefan





