ValueError: unsupported pickle protocol: 3, python 2.7 cannot load pickle file even dump with protocol = 2

Question

I have used: pickle.dump(data, f, protocol=2)

And try to open the pickle file with python 2.7, however, it still pop up with the error "ValueError: unsupported pickle protocol: 3".

Answer 1

It is more likely to be a pickle file created with python 3. I guess you mainly use python 2.7. Either you re-create the pickle file with python 2.7 or you use python 3.