I currently have a list and woulr like to store the contents into a text fiel whihc I can read back ... For example: a = ['a','b','c','d'] #do something like fd = open('txt.txt','w') fd.write(a) Traceback (innermost last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: read-only buffer, list What to do?? And I can't use pickle ...