unpickle to python list
Andrew Bennetts
andrew-pythonlist at puzzling.org
Mon Feb 3 07:33:04 EST 2003
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:16:33PM +0100, Thomas Guettler 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?
>
> I would like to get a foo.py file which contains
> this list in python syntax.
>
> This would make it easy to edit the list with an text
> editor.
For lists containing things like strings, you could simply write the result
of "repr(mylist)" to a file.
On the other hand, if all your list contains is simple strings, writing the
strings to a file, one per line, is even easier...
So really, the answer depends on what's in the list.
-Andrew.
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