Simple account program

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 21 22:28:45 EST 2005


Igorati wrote:
> pickle.dump ((withdrawl), file ('account.pickle', 'w'))
                 ^^^^^^^^^

Is this banking done with an American accent? :-)

> pickle.dump ((deposit), file ('account.pickle', 'w'))
> Am I on the right track?

The file you create in the second statement is going
to overwrite the first one. If you want to append
data to an existing file, you need to open it in
'a' mode.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg



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