> O.k. sometimes I'm on the road - and it takes me a while to get back to > gambas. > > Ideally I just want to write a class, which is all strings, to a file and > read it back in. > > I saw in one of the posts that there may be a way to do this, but there > wasn't any detail... Can any one explain further? > > > FYI Pickle explained (sortof): > ----- snip ------ > "Rather than have users be constantly writing and debugging code to > save complicated data types, Python provides a standard module called > ‘pickle’. This is an amazing module that can take almost > any Python object (even some forms of Python code!), and convert it to > a string representation; this process is called pickling. > Reconstructing the object from the string representation is called > unpickling. Between pickling and unpickling, the string representing the > object may have been stored in a file or data, or sent over a network > connection to some distant machine. " > > ref http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/pytut/pickleModule.html > -------------------- > > Thanks in advance > a gambas newbie :) > Peter. >
That process is usually called "serialization". There are some serialization routines in the gb.web component. They are used to store the session contents inside a file. But they can only handle native datatypes, arrays and collections. They cannot handle arbitrary Gambas objects. Regards, -- Benoît ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
