Writing Object Data to Disk

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.914.1190444082.2658.python-list at python.org>, Amit Kumar
Saha wrote:

> I would like to know if "Pickling" the class object is the only way of
> writing it to disk for persistent storage.

Wouldn't it be better to use a language-independent data representation that
wasn't tied to Python? Also tying your external data representation to your
internal program structure (objects) makes it harder to change the program
in future.