Lee Harr hotmail.com> writes:
> Now my question is how do you keep people from just loading
> the high score file with whatever scores they want?
I'd say this is impossible particularly with Python, because cheaters could
always look in the source and find out whatever you're doing to the scores
> Now my question is how do you keep people from just loading
> the high score file with whatever scores they want?
> This is not to disparage a simple (and probably very useful)
> high score file. It is just something that I have been thinking
> about doing myself for quite a while, but I can ne
Pickling simply converts an object to a string (unpickling does the
opposite,
convert a string to an object). The dump() function writes the generated
string
directly to a file, but you can use the dumps() function to get the
generated
string as such and do something else with it (e.g. put it in
Andrei wrote:
Pickling is also very useful when combined with the bsddb module, because you
get a fast database which functions very much like a dictionary, and in which
you can put anything you like, as long as you pickle it first.
import bsddb
mydb = bsddb.btopen('game.db')
mydb['highscores'] =
D. Hartley gmail.com> writes:
> So the .dump command is, in effect, saving the file, correct? which
> takes the object you're saving (in my case it would be
> high_scorelist), and ("filename",". what is the "w" ?) Why does
> the temp file you're saving into end in .pik?
Pickling simply conv
