On Apr 16, 4:03 am, "lancered" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dear all, > > I have some data here in the form of a dictionary, called "vdic". Then > I write them to a data file "f" using the write function as > f.write(str(vdic)). The keys of this dictionary are integers and > values are float numbers. Something like this: > > { 1: 0.00951486513347, 2: 0.0388123556019, ... ...} > > Now, I want to read these data back in another function. Of course, I > could parse the string little by little, e.g, first read a "{", then > loop read a int, then read a ":", then a float etc etc... Since it is > written out with standard python builtin functions, I guess there may > be some more direct method than this, say a function in some modules? > Could someone give me a hint?
Try: import shelve s = shelve.open("newFile.dat") s["d"] = {"red":2, 3:"blue", 2.5:"x"} s.close() s = shelve.open("newFile.dat") print s["d"] my_dict = s["d"] print my_dict[2.5] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list