On Apr 16, 11:03 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?
ConfigObj and its 'unrepr' mode gives you a useful (and simple) way of preserving and restoring basic Python datatypes. The file format is a very readable 'ini' format - and the basic interface is like a dictionary, for both writing and retrieving values. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html Fuzzyman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list