Re: [Tutor] Saving Objects

2008-01-17 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Jan 17, 2008 6:15 AM, Andy Cheesman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My only arising question is why should i > "derive from object, so that you get a new-style class." > This list discussed this topic a couple of weeks ago. Recklessly simplifying, it boils down to this: By using new-style classe

Re: [Tutor] Saving Objects

2008-01-17 Thread Andy Cheesman
That's great and it works too, thank you! My only arising question is why should i "derive from object, so that you get a new-style class." I've looked online and found this (http://www.geocities.com/foetsch/python/new_style_classes.htm) but I not sure it tells why I would want to do this this

Re: [Tutor] Saving Objects

2008-01-17 Thread Paul McGuire
>>> My initial tests using pickle and a simple class system (shown below) have failed. The method shown below fails with a AttributeError: 'FakeModule' object has no attribute 'Spod', so when I create a an empty class Spod in the new session, it generates an IndexError:(list index out of range) I

[Tutor] Saving Objects

2008-01-17 Thread Andy Cheesman
Hi people I've written a complex program in python/numpy/scipy which creates a dictionary of objects(which takes a while to create). I am hoping to save these objects to disk and then access them using a different session, thus bypassing the time to create the objects. My initial tests using p