[Tutor] Re: Nested Lists / Array Module

[Andrei]

Harm_Kirchhoff at mail.digital.co.jp wrote:
> Python supports nested lists, which is very nice and can be used for very 
> simple databases.
> 
> However, I could not find a way to write nested lists to files & retrieve 
> them easily.
> The .writelines() method expects a string as an argument.
> 
> Is there a method to dump any list on disk & read it back, or is it 
> necessary to code this task ?

Not too long ago a similar question (or was it the same?) was on the list
I believe. You can either pickle or convert your list to a string using 
str(),
e.g. str(MyList). It doesn't matter how deep that list is.

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Yours,

Andrei

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