Logger module in python

[Roy Smith]

In article <fabe3b07-3d2f-48f2-9e56-2fdebff39175 at googlegroups.com>,
 smilesonisamal at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
>   I am a newbie in python. I am looking for a existing module which I can 
>   import in my program to log the objects to a file?
> 
> I know there is a module Data::Dumper in perl which dumps the objects to 
> file. But not sure about python.


You're talking about what's known as serializing an object.  Taking the 
in-memory representation and turning it into something that can be 
written into a network connection or into a file, then read back in, and 
turned back into an in-memory object.

The standard way to do this in Python is pickle 
(http://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html).  Depending on the type 
of data you have, you might want to use JSON encoding instead 
(http://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html), but pickle is probably the 
most similar to Data::Dumper.