Actually, the problem just got worse. I forgot that I have json files with 750 files in it that needs to be imported. It is very important that I be able to import these files because they speed up the program enormously.

Is there anyway to import several files at once. My program is split into 35 files and I have to import them one at a time. It is extremely tedious.

Also, I'm trying to open up a pickle that is 8 megs large. It takes a lot of time and it crashes before it opens. Is this normal? Of course, I can chop it up into 8 sections and put it back together, but I would rather not do that.

@cvp, Thanks that did it. Problem solved.

it automatically adds the .py extension to all files. so z_dict_words.pkl becomes z_dict_words.pkl.py. how do i rename files?

If I import a zipped pkl do I have to unzip it? If so how?

what about json? can pythonista handle json?

I was not able to rename the file but I created a new file and cut and paste the text of z_dict_words.py into the newly created z_dict_words.pkl. I then ran the code and pythonista was not able to load the pickle file. This is the error message I got:

File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/D4D2C25F-316F-47DF-8CFF-84E670A3283D/Pythonista3/Documents/main_loop.py", line 163, in get_result
dictionary = pickle.load(pkl_file)
_pickle.UnpicklingError: invalid load key, '\xc2'.

These lines are 150 - 163 in my code:

def get_result(one_sent, user = "", print_type="40", order=[0], get_words_used=0):
    global words_used
    total_time = time.time()

    if one_sent == 'a':
        proof_type, print_type, get_words_used, order = parameters()
        pkl_file = open(user + 'zz_claims.pkl', 'rb')
        test_sent = pickle.load(pkl_file)
        pkl_file.close()
    elif one_sent != "":
        test_sent = one_sent
    else:
        pkl_file = open(user + 'zz_claims.pkl', 'rb')
        test_sent = pickle.load(pkl_file)
        pkl_file.close()
    pkl_file = open(user + 'z_dict_words.pkl', 'rb')
    dictionary = pickle.load(pkl_file)
    pkl_file.close()

I'm attaching a screenshot so as to demonstrate that the file is in my script library

https://ibb.co/mkgSVS

i'm trying to download some kind of file manager app ut not having much success because i have an ipod 6 touch which is very old.

hold on, I didn't see that part about using the files app on the ipod.

here, I took some screenshots available here

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1djAgW_weu-eGZFB-ZKV_6ZOQzu6bxXrB?usp=sharing

when I click on the file to share on my desktop with is lemmata.pkl nothing relating to pythonista3 shows up.