> Briefly: > > s = cPickle.dumps(obj) > z = zipfile.Zipfile("filename.zip","w",zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) > z.writestr("arcname.pkl",s)
Thank you very much. I have not been aware that pickle can also do the job without a file! Here's the complete scenario for writing and reading the data... APPENDIX: import pickle import zipfile def test1(): print("test1...") # create data data = {} data["first name" ] = "Thomas" data["second name"] = "Lehmann" data["hobbies" ] = ["programming python"] print (data) # pickle data pickleString = pickle.dumps(data) # save string to zip under a name file = zipfile.ZipFile("ZippedPickle.zip", "w", zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) file.writestr("some data", pickleString) file.close() def test2(): print("test2...") file = zipfile.ZipFile("ZippedPickle.zip", "r", zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) # reading zipped string store under a name pickleString = file.read("some data") # unpickle string to original data data = pickle.loads(pickleString) print (data) file.close() if __name__ == "__main__": test1() test2() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list