On 2007-05-15, HMS Surprise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to write 2 member lists to a file. For each record the number > of these lists can be different. I think a good way to handle that may > be to make each record a list of lists. I am restricted to using > version 2.2. That being the case what is a good standard record > separator to use to ensure that I read in one record (list of lists) > at a time, '\n'? I want to try to stay with what is considered > standard python idioms.
Your description is a bit vague, but if I'm guessing your task correctly, the standard idiom is to use the pickle module: http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/lib/module-pickle.html You can use it to write pretty much any python object to a file. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Nipples, dimples, at knuckles, NICKLES, visi.com wrinkles, pimples!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
