unpickle to python list

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:23:42PM +0000, Gerhard H?ring wrote:
> Thomas Guettler <zopestoller at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have a pickle which contains a flat list:
> > 
> > mylist=[
> >   "abc",
> >   "def",
> >   "ghi", ...]
> > 
> > Is it possible to pickle this list to python syntax? [...]
> 
> Hmm. Maybe you can rip some parts out of Twisted?
> 
> <quote source="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/howto/basics">
> TAS
>     Twisted contains twisted.persisted.aot, a module that supports
>     serializing into Python source. This has the advantage of using
>     Python's own parser and being able to later manually add Python
>     code to the file.
> </quote>

Here's a demonstration:

    >>> from twisted.persisted import aot
    >>> print aot.jellyToSource(['abc', 'def', 'ghi'])
    app=[
      'abc',
      'def',
      'ghi',
      ]

The "app=" is unfortunately hard-coded atm, because that's sufficient for
Twisted's use-case for this module.  It might suit the original poster
nicely.

-Andrew.