Writing Object Data to Disk

[Amit Kumar Saha]

> > From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
> > 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.

Actually, language independence is really not a consideration here. I am
happy at having it tied to Python :-)

BTW, do we have something like array of objects here? 
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Amit Kumar Saha
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