party.read() seems to not work

[HGeoAle]

eqcorrscan 0.5.0
obspy version 1.4.1
numpy version 1.26.4

Describe the bug
I am trying to save my progress and I couldn't use the write() and read() feature on any party so far. I use party.write('filename') to get the file, I have checked that the file is created and it is some MB in size so I suspect the problem is not there. But when I tried to used party = Party().read('filename') it takes some minutes to run but at the end i get an empty party with 0 families,

To Reproduce
This problem happens every time I try to read a party.
so, far I only get 'Party of 0 Families' after printing the party. No error message

Expected behavior
I expect to recover the party with all its attributes.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Operating System: Rocky Linux release 8.10 (Green Obsidian)
• Python version: Python 3.11.8
• EQcorrscan version: eqcorrscan 0.5.0

Additional context
The way around I am ussing is to dump the parties into pickles. I am aware this is also an option with write() and read() but seems to not work like that

write:

import pickle
pkl_output = open("party.pkl", 'wb')
pickle.dump(party, pkl_output)
pkl_output.close()

read:
import pickle with open('party_declust.pkl', 'rb') as f: party = pickle.load(f)

[calum-chamberlain]

Hmm, that is annoying. Would you be able to share the file that you have written so I can try and work out where this is going wrong?

Pickling is usually the faster option, provided you are reading and writing on the same machine, and I would generally suggest that you use your pickling code unless you need portability. Nevertheless, you should be able to read your writen parties!