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1. speeddefrost

   @cmsj Couldn't you use the pickle module?

   Tuesday, 02-Feb-10 09:03:02 UTC from web
   • James Westby

     @cmsj: user-editable on disk?

     Monday, 01-Feb-10 00:43:54 UTC
   • Rodney Dawes

     @cmsj CPickle I think?

     Monday, 01-Feb-10 00:45:40 UTC
   • Peter Ward

     @cmsj If you want something built-in to python, the json, pickle, shelve modules may be helpful.

     Monday, 01-Feb-10 00:55:23 UTC
   • Rob Weir

     @cmsj json (assuming no loops, I guess)?

     Monday, 01-Feb-10 02:13:13 UTC
   • Arc Riley Python

     @cmsj writing a tree of dicts to a file in !python? sounds like a task for xml, check out ElementTree

     Monday, 01-Feb-10 02:16:20 UTC
   • Christopher Allan Webber

     @cmsj If your data is fairly basic, consider using simplejson in python <= 2.5 (just "json" in python 3 and 2.6)

     Monday, 01-Feb-10 02:47:51 UTC
   • Guy K. Kloss Python

     @cmsj Try #XML or #JSON for serialising your nested structures in ASCII, so that they can be written to a file in !Python

     Monday, 01-Feb-10 02:51:37 UTC
   • James Westby

     @cmsj: yaml and json are good formats for representing it then, but opinions on their user-editability differ.

     Monday, 01-Feb-10 08:17:48 UTC
   • John Paulett

     @cmsj sorry for the self-promo, but http://jsonpickle.github.com/ might help if the standard json module is too restricting

     Monday, 01-Feb-10 23:32:23 UTC