simple text parser?

[Michael Peuser]

This is a little bit confusing.
(1) Do you want to dump "internal" data? Of course you cannnot expect those
data to be portabel between Python and C#!!!

(2) Do you have your data already converted to some standard ASCII format?
Then just write it into a textfile!

(3) Do you have a very special structure in mind to be serialized (i.e. list
of string - integer tuples; an "array of structs of a row of char and an
int" as you would say in C ;-))? Then you probably should store it in XML.
Lots of tools with Python, probably as many in C#

Kindly
Michael P


"Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery at 3DProgrammer.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I'm making a 2D game with a simple "adjacent freeform territories" map.  I
> need to make save files for this.  I figure I could store the data in
either
> binary or text.  The amount of data to be stored should be small enough
that
> efficiency and size do not matter.  What does matter, is I don't want to
> spend any time at all on this.  I want something off-the-shelf.
>
> Can anyone recommend simple text parsers implemented in Python?
>
> Alternately, doesn't Python have some kind of automagical serialization
> pack/unpack functionality?  How does that work?  I remember reading
> something about that in the Python docs awhile ago.  Before you scream
RTFM,
> bear in mind that my current plan is to write versions of this game in C#
/
> .NET and Python / WhateverWidgets simultaneously.  I'm ignorant of both
> platforms, this is an excuse to do a comparo.  And, the whole point of
> moving to higher level language development is to minimize pain.  Asking
> questions here rather than reinventing the wheel is part of that agenda.
I
> want to handle this problem off-the-shelf.
>
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