I think you are better off using a database in this situation, sqlite3 is a good choice since no extra setup is required. See http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html
And to answer your question, the python pickle module can save class instances, see http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html Regards, Daniel Woodhouse On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Thomas Scrace <t.scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am new to Python (and to programming) and, now that I have worked through > most of Learning Python, I have set myself the exercise of writing a little > text-based program to catalogue the contents of my CD collection. > > I have written enough code to allow me to create instances of an Album > class with attributes like name, artist, year etc. However, I am at a loss > as to how to save these instances so that they can be retrieved the next > time I run the program. I assume I need to write them to a file somehow, > and while I know how to write and read to and from files, I do not know how > to write instances. > > I am sure this has an obvious and easy answer but I just cannot find it > anywhere! > > If anybody could help I would be most grateful. > > Tom >
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