ConfigObj is good - it (effectively) turns a dictionary into an ini file, and vice versa.
There is also built in support for type conversion. See http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html See the ConfigPersist module which has functions to use ConfigObj for data persistence. It explains the limitations. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configpersist.html Basically you can store and retrieve dictionaries, lists, strings, integers, floats and booleans. You can nest dictionaries - but you can't nest dictionaries in lists. All the keys must be strings - but the module/article suggests a way round that, at the expense of readability of the resulting text file. All the best, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
