[Tutor] Saving data

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Alexandre Passos wrote:

> How can I save some data achieved in some program into other file?
> ex:
> 
> nm = raw_input("Name:")
> age = input("Age:")
> hob = raw_input("Favourite hobby:")
> persnon = """Name:%s
> Age:%d
> Favourite Hobby: %s"""

One simple way:

f = open("savefile", "w+")
z = "Name:" + nm + '\n'
f.write(z)
(etc)

f.close()

That way, each variable is listed on each line. Otherwise you have to make
sure there's no returns in there. :)

To retrieve, use f.read() or f.readline() after opening it for reading
(the above example would be opening it for writing).

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