saving complex data structures?

[Paul Rubin]

"akhar" <akhar at videotron.ca> writes:
> How does one go about saving and restoring complex data structures? like if
> I have made a daatabase in python how do I save the contents for fast
> retrieval, in other ways than text files which do not always take into
> account structure? ( I thought of XML but ... I am wondering if there is a
> binary way?)

See the docs for the pickle/cpickle module.