Re: [Tutor] How to replace instances

2008-09-29 Thread Kent Johnson
Replying to the list.. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Steve Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry it took me so long to respond; I haven't been able to afford any time to such leisurely pursuits as programming. I'm not cc'ing this to the Mailing list, becuase I fear it may get a little

Re: [Tutor] How to replace instances

2008-09-26 Thread Richard Lovely
) outside of the class? On 9/25/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:24:31 -0400 From: Steve Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Tutor] How to replace instances To: tutor@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859

[Tutor] How to replace instances

2008-09-25 Thread Steve Collins
I've written a save/load function for a simple program using cPickle. Upon saving, a master list, to which all instances are added in their __init__, is pickled. when the program starts, if the user wishes to load, a variable load is set to one, and the pickled list is loaded. All the classes

Re: [Tutor] How to replace instances

2008-09-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Steve Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, some of the instances refer explicitly to other instances instances. It's obvious why this causes problems. It occurred to me to simply replace the instances with the ones in the un-pickled list, but I don't know

Re: [Tutor] How to replace instances

2008-09-25 Thread Steve Collins
On 9/25/08, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Steve Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, some of the instances refer explicitly to other instances instances. It's obvious why this causes problems. It occurred to me to simply replace the instances

Re: [Tutor] How to replace instances

2008-09-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Steve Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that's what I was trying (incorrectly) to achieve the above example. but how can I do this for an arbitrary number of objects in a list? I have a list x = [a,b,c] and a list y = [d,e,f], both filled with instance