save dictionary for later use?

[castironpi]

On May 17, 3:52 am, castironpi <castiro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 16, 4:23 pm, Hans Nowak <zephyrfalcon!NO_SP... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > globalrev wrote:
> > > pickle.dumps(mg)
> > > pickle.load(mg)
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> > > 'dict' object has no attribute 'readline'
> > > dumps load(well i dont know but i get no complaint but running load
> > > generates that error)
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> > The 'loads' and 'dumps' methods use strings:
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> >  >>> import pickle
> >  >>> d = {"this": 42, "that": 101, "other": 17}
> >  >>> s = pickle.dumps(d)
> >  >>> s
> > "(dp0\nS'this'\np1\nI42\nsS'other'\np2\nI17\nsS'that'\np3\nI101\ns."
> >  >>> pickle.loads(s)
> > {'this': 42, 'other': 17, 'that': 101}
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> > If you want to store to / restore from file, use 'dump' and 'load':
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> > # write to file 'out'...
> >  >>> f = open("out")
> >  >>> f = open("out", "wb")
> >  >>> pickle.dump(d, f)
> >  >>> f.close()
>
> > # restore it later
> >  >>> g = open("out", "rb")
> >  >>> e = pickle.load(g)
> >  >>> g.close()
> >  >>> e
> > {'this': 42, 'other': 17, 'that': 101}
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> > Also seehttp://docs.python.org/lib/pickle-example.html.
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> > Hope this helps!
>
> > --Hans
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> I want to compare that cleanliness with other languages to compare
> formats.
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> Is pickle.load( open( 'out', 'rb' ) ) any better or worse than
> pickle.load( 'out', 'rb' )?- Hide quoted text -
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This is a check-in on live-time writing.  pickle.load didn't take two
parameters.