Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to put data

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Dec 21, 2004, at 6:57 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: On Dec 21, 2004, at 3:32 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: On Dec 21, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Charles Hartman wrote: (I also posted this to wxusers because it's sort of cross-platform -- sorry if you're seeing it again.) With an earlier app I wanted an extern

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to put data

2004-12-21 Thread Charles Hartman
OK, all this makes sense. But I'm startled to see how incredibly gnarly it is to have any kind of data -- if you want to preserve changes in the data, say by having a dictionary grow from one program run to the next -- at least on more than one platform. Is this so uncommon a pattern for applicatio

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to put data

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Dec 21, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Charles Hartman wrote: (I also posted this to wxusers because it's sort of cross-platform -- sorry if you're seeing it again.) With an earlier app I wanted an external data file and everybody told me to make it internal to the program (the app's Resources, I guess)

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to put data

2004-12-21 Thread Chris Barker
Charles Hartman wrote: With an earlier app I wanted an external data file and everybody told me to make it internal to the program (the app's Resources, I guess) instead. I couldn't, then. Now with a new app I want to do just that, but I'm not sure *how* to do it! It's a file of data -- a Pytho

[Pythonmac-SIG] Where to put data

2004-12-21 Thread Charles Hartman
(I also posted this to wxusers because it's sort of cross-platform -- sorry if you're seeing it again.) With an earlier app I wanted an external data file and everybody told me to make it internal to the program (the app's Resources, I guess) instead. I couldn't, then. Now with a new app I want