When reading and writing pickle files, I've noticed that some snippets use .p others .pkl and some the full .pickle. Is there one most pythonic way of doing this? My current view is that there is no one right answer, and that any of these will suffice. In fact, writing a filename of awesome.pkl or awesome.sauce won't make a difference when running pickle.load(open(filename, "rb")). This is to say, the file extension is just a convention which doesn't actually affect the underlying data. Is that right? Bonus: What if I saved a PNG image as myimage.jpg? What havoc would that create? Continue reading...
