Why do I get “Pickle - EOFError: Ran out of input” reading an empty file?

Question

I am getting an interesting error while trying to use Unpickler.load(), here is the source code:

open(target, \'a\').close()
scores = {};
with o         


        

Answer 1

As you see, that's actually a natural error ..

A typical construct for reading from an Unpickler object would be like this ..

try:
    data = unpickler.load()
except EOFError:
    data = list()  # or whatever you want

EOFError is simply raised, because it was reading an empty file, it just meant End of File ..