> I would like to know if "Pickling" the class object is the only way of > writing it to disk for persistent storage. Also, do we have a concept > similar to "array of objects" in Python? The number of objects is only > known at "run-time".
Have a look at YAML. http://freshmeat.net/projects/syck/ Also it is possible to persist python data to and from XML. See xml.marshal.generic.dumps -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list