newb question

[Cameron Laird]

In article <8l0tfe$3th$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <lordkaos at my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <3973EE1B.15B0B32E at mediaone.net>,
>  Toy <gee308 at mediaone.net> wrote:
>> what is a simple way I can save variables that people enter in from
>> 'raw_input' ?  That way, someone enters the variables they want, then
>> when the script is booted up everytime the machine starts, it will
>grab
>> the variables from somewhere.  Thanks.
>> Jason Toy
>> toyboy at toy.eyep.net
>>
>>
>The tutorial at <a href="http://www.python.org/current/tut">Python's
>website</a> tells a simple and easy way to do exactly what you're
>saying. If you can get the variables into a class (read section 9, in
>particular 9.3) then it is easy to read and write a big set of vars all
>together in one operation by using the 'pickle' command (read about
>this and easy file creation/opening in section 7.2). I just read over
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Pickling's good.  In many situations, it can be handy simply
to write out Python source text.  I don't understand Tony's
question well enough to know whether he's a candidate; however,
<URL:http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-06-2000/swol-0630-regex.html>
gives a few examples that might be helpful.
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