How do I read binary pickle data first, then unpickle it?

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pickle.load(file) expects a file-like object. Instead, use:

pickle.loads(string)

Read a pickled object hierarchy from a string. Characters in the string past the pickled object’s representation are ignored.

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The documentation mentions StringIO, which I think is one possible solution.

Try:

f = open("big_networkx_graph.pickle","rb")
bin_data = f.read()
sio = StringIO(bin_data)
graph_data = pickle.load(sio)