Question

Assertion (A): For a binary file opened using ‘rb’ mode, the pickle.dump() method will display an error.

Reason (R): The pickle.dump() method is used to read from a binary file.

Options

• Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation for Assertion (A).

• Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation for Assertion (A).

• Assertion (A) is true but, Reason (R) is false.

• Assertion (A) is false but, Reason (R) is true.

Answer 1

Assertion (A) is true but, Reason (R) is false.

Explanation:

pickle.dump() method writes data to a binary file, hence for files opened with “rb” (read binary) Mode the above method will give an error.