[SciPy-user] Saving Data as Modul!!

[Johannes Loehnert]

Hi,

> Actually I've done what Volker asks in several different ways, although
> none of the solutions is general enough to post here. The most fun
> instance was saving electrophysiology recordings to a .py file such that
> I could double-click the file and have the __main__ function plot the
> data! In fact, now that I think about it, I've constructed most of my
> examples to operate in this way -- run the .py file as a script and see
> the data it contains in some kind of visualization. "import" it and use
> it in another module. The nice thing about making it a module is that it
> goes along for the ride with distutils without you having to even think
> about it.

Actually I had similar thoughts recently. However I did not think about 
storing everything into a .py file, I was more along the line of storing a 
chunk of plotting code with the data.

How do you deal with large arrays? Do you store them as ASCII data or as 
binary string? If second, how?

Johannes