Template for pickling and unpickling variables

zimnica_template.py

import pickle
import datetime

def pickle_vars(var1, var2):
    pickle_file_path = 'zimnica/pickled_vars_' + datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S") + '.pickle'
    try:
        pickle.dump((var1, var2), open(pickle_file_path, "wb"))
    except Exception as e:
        print("Problem while trying to pickle: ", str(e))
        
def unpickle_vars(pickle_file_path):
    try:
        var1, var2 = pickle.load(open(pickle_file_path, "rb"))
        return var1, var2
    except Exception as e:
        print("Problem while trying to unpickle: ", str(e))
        return None