In article <[email protected]>, Paul Rubin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lou Pecora <[email protected]> writes: > > after much noodling around and reading it hit me that I could just put > > all that output of different types of variables into a list, hit it > > with a repr() function to get a string version, and write the string > > to a file -- no formatting necessary-- three lines of code. Later > > reading in the string version (no formatting necessary), and hitting > > it with an eval() function returned all the values I originally had in > > those variables. How simple, but beautiful. > > FYI: I do that too sometimes, but in general using repr/eval that way > is poor style and not very reliable. It's better to use the pickle > module, which is intended for that sort of thing, or the json module > if your datatypes are suitable and you want to follow a semi-standard. Yeah, I should look into pickle. Haven't messed with that. Most of what I do is numerical calculations for my consumption/research so quick and easy comes first. Thanks for the hint. -- -- Lou Pecora -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
