yeah. that's what I was thinking using a .txt file. what's pickle?
On 9/24/07, Ian Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/23/07, Aaron Maupin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eric Hunter wrote:
You could just pickle the list. That's essentially what I used for
pickle?
I've always used .txt files.
Pickle is one of Python's serializing modules.
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pickle.html
It can save and restore data, code, classes, etc...
David
On 9/24/07, Eric Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yeah. that's what I was thinking using a .txt file. what's pickle?
On 9/24/07, Ian
Greg Ewing wrote:
Pickling can be very convenient, but it ties your file
format very closely to internal details of your program.
Restructuring your program in any way is likely to
render your existing pickled files useless.
I used a dictionary as a container for saved game values and pickled
On Tue, September 25, 2007 12:05 am, Aaron Maupin wrote:
I used a dictionary as a container for saved game values and pickled the
dictionary. Maybe not the best way but it worked like a charm.
I find that in at least some cases, pickling is hideously inefficient,
taking on the order of 10
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I find that in at least some cases, pickling is hideously inefficient,
taking on the order of 10 times as much space as a different format.
On the flip side, I find it enormously efficient, taking 1/10 the time to
implement as some other formats. So it's a question of
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I find that in at least some cases, pickling is hideously inefficient,
taking on the order of 10 times as much space as a different format.
In my case I knew the resulting file would be quite small (3K at the
max), and even then I zipped it anyway. (Not for any
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If you want to store a dictionary, a quick way to do that is to use text,
writing a key:value pair to each line and ignoring lines that start with
#.
If we're just talking about our favorite serialization format, I much
On 9/25/07, Ethan Glasser-Camp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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If you want to store a dictionary, a quick way to do that is to use text,
writing a key:value pair to each line and ignoring lines that start with
#.
If we're
