Trouble using pinckle

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Pierre-Alain Dorange a écrit :
> Cédric Lucantis <omer at no-log.org> wrote:
> 
>> Here self is only a local variable and its meaning is only a convention. So
>> assigning it to a new value won't change the object itself (and is not a good
>> idea as it may be confusing for the reader).
> 
> Thanks, i was thinking about something like that.
> 
(snip)

> I try the staticmethod, it works fine. Very helpful.
> 
> But i don't like it very much, it seems 'complicated' (python was
> supposed to be simple).

Try doing the same thing in C++ !-)

> I'll also try the dictionnary method.
> My final idea was that a dictionnary would be perhaps simple in the
> future to save/load as XML and a parser.

XML ? What a strange idea ?

> But perhaps i'm wrong with my vision of python.
 >
> On a more global perspective, what are the best method to implement a
> simple config file with pyhton. 

Well... Python does have a couple of config-related packages, starting 
with the one in the stdlib. You may want to find out if any of these 
packages fits your needs before reinventing the wheel ?

> Assuming i finally want to made a bundle
> app for Mac, Windows and perhaps Linux.
> I develop on Mac, and on this platform the config fil (preferences) have
> to be stored in a special directory : ~/Library/Preferences, no problem.
> But on other platform that's not the same directory and perhaps i would
> also faced to permissions issues...

Yeps. Portability sometimes has a cost. I can't help you wrt/ Windows, 
but on unix the convention is to save user's prefs in a .yourprogram 
file (or directory) in the user's home directory.

> But first is there a way to determine on which platfrom the python
> script is running ?

the os package is your friend.