On 3/16/2015 5:04 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 16/03/15 20:39, Doug Basberg wrote:
I would like to pass the contents of a dictionary from one program to
another through a file. So, what is the elegant way to pass a
dictionary by
file?
The elegant way may be not to use a file.
A Python diction
"Doug Basberg" writes:
> I would like to pass the contents of a dictionary from one program to
> another through a file.
The term for this in programming is “serialisation”, in the sense that a
specific series of bits will represent the Python value, and you want to
convert to and from that seri
On 16 March 2015 at 20:39, Doug Basberg wrote:
>
> I would like to pass the contents of a dictionary from one program to
> another through a file. So, what is the elegant way to pass a dictionary by
> file? My early learning about Python seems to indicate that only ascii is
> easily passed in fi
On 16/03/15 20:39, Doug Basberg wrote:
I would like to pass the contents of a dictionary from one program to
another through a file. So, what is the elegant way to pass a dictionary by
file?
The elegant way may be not to use a file.
A Python dictionary usually converts easily
to JSON format wh
I would like to pass the contents of a dictionary from one program to
another through a file. So, what is the elegant way to pass a dictionary by
file? My early learning about Python seems to indicate that only ascii is
easily passed in files. I am using Python 2.7.4 now. Should I be learning
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