newb question

[gee308 at mediaone.net.bbs]

Do you need to use classes?  I'm a newb and I'm just writing a
"read-down"script with one or 2 functions.  What do you mean by raw_input
and read() and write()?  Thanks for th help.
Jason Toy


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
> this and it should answer your question. Come to think of it, raw_input
> stores your input as a string, so you can just read() and write() in
> one swipe to do the same thing (This would be much easier).
>
> --Jared
>
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