On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:21 PM, <eneskri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think of it as a bit strange. Should I report it as a bug? I was trying to > incorporate a save/load, and this happened. > def save(): > target = open ("save.swroc", 'w') > target.write([counter, loop, number_of_competitors, competitors]) > def load(): > target = open("save.swroc", 'r') > the_array = target > counter = the_array[0] > loop = the_array[1] > number_of_competitors = the_array[2] > competitors = the_array[3] > Swroc is an nonexisting file format that i just made up, an acronym of the > program
You can't write lists directly to files. You can only write strings to files. To write and read a list, you'll need to first serialize it and later deserialize it. Your needs appear simple enough that I suggest the json module for this. json.dump([counter, loop, number_of_competitors, competitors], target) [counter, loop, number_of_competitors, competitors] = json.load(target) It sounds like this may be the source of the exception that tkinter was trying unsuccessfully to report in your first post. You should still fix your sys.stderr so that tkinter can report exceptions. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list