On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Deirdre Hackett wrote: > pickle.dump(data,f) > > I want to write data to the file testing3.txt. you have done it already. Perhaps you need to close the file again in order to write cached data to disk (f.close()) or do this directly via f.flush() To read the data, you need another file-object in read-mode: f = open("testing3.txt","r") data = pickle.load(f) Michael