[Tutor] Need help printing a pickled data

[Marc Tompkins]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>wrote:


> Why do you want to see rubbish like that inside your log file? Surely
> something like this is better?
>
> log.write("data = %r" % data)
>
> which will give you a line like this:
>
> data = {'a': None, 'b': 42}
>
>
> in your log, which is a million times more understandable than a pickle.
>

This conversation is starting to remind me of Arlo Guthrie's Motorcycle
Song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvLtNBm1yyA

"I don't want a pickle
I just wanna ride on my motorcycle..."
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