Data store solution need help

[Alex Hall]

An important question is: will you need this input stored across
multiple runs of the program? What I mean is, do you want the user to
set the data, then have those same settings even after closing and
re-opening the program?

On 5/14/10, Bruno Desthuilliers
<bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
> Haulyn Jason a écrit :
>> Hi, all:
>>
>> I am a Java programmer, now I am working on a Python program. At the
>> moment, I need to store some data from user's input, no database, no
>> xml, no txt(we can not make users open the data file by vim or other
>> text editor).
>>
>> Any suggestions or reference url? Is there a lib should do this or I
>> need to implement it myself?
>>
>> PS: if I want to implement it myself, which part of python document I
>> need to learn? I know how to write txt files now, but not further for me.
>>
>
> Not sure I really understand whether you want to store your data in just
> any format or if it need to be a "binary" format or else... And you
> don't tell much about how your data structure and how it will be used.
>
> Anyway: two possible solutions are csv or serialization.
>
> For the first option, see the csv module
> http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html#module-csv
>
> For the second, look at pickle and shelve modules:
> http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html#module-pickle
> http://docs.python.org/library/shelve.html#module-shelve
>
>
> If none of this fits your needs, please provide more details !-)
> HTH
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