On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Graham Fielding <frednot...@hotmail.ca> wrote:
> file_object = open('savegame.sav', 'wb') Here you open a file and assign it to "file_object". > file['map'] = map Here you attempt to write to "file" instead of "file_object". "file" is the name of a built-in type, hence your error message. Since you seem to be trying to use shelve, you should also probably be calling shelve.open to open the file, not just open. > file['objects'] = objects > file['player_index'] = objects.index(player) #index of player in > objects list > file['inventory'] = inventory > file['game_msgs'] = game_msgs > file['game_state'] = game_state > file['stairs_index'] = objects.index(stairs) > file['dungeon_level'] = dungeon_level > file.close() Same issue for all these other statements. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list