On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 09:22:25 +0300 (Arab Standard Time), Eri Mendz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -- > Regards, > Eri Mendz > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 15:53:36 +0300 (Arab Standard Time) > Subject: Address book sort of > > Dear Tutor, > > I like to know what is the proper procedure (is algorithmn the right > term?) in creating data in a program, write it to file, close the app > then retrieve the data when run again. Basically, I'm trying to simulate > a simple address book (well not really for the datas are just names for > now) and so far have created the basic menu interface. It is console > base so forget gui. I ask user input and store it in a list. There are > menus to change, delete the data, and to save the data list in file. I > use cPickle for this and have verified the file is created by checking > in my $PWD. I want to retrieve that data when program is run again. What > to add in my code? I thought not to post the code but explain it as > above. > > What i want: when program is run again, the saved data is loaded when user > selects option 1 below. Of course the first time it is run, the list is > empty. > > def print_options(): > print ''' > Options: > [1] - Print content of list > [2] - Add name to list > [3] - Delete name from list > [4] - Change name in list > [5] - Save list to file > [P] - Print this menu > [Q] - Quit > ''' > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
This sounds slightly similar to one of my first applications in Python using object orientated design: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/newmag - which is a magazine catalogue. Feel free to browse the code, and reuse if you wish (under conditions of the license). It creates objects, and then writes the objects (using pickle) to a file - the process of opening is simple - you just open the file and then Python reloads all the objects into memory again. Adam -- http://www.monkeez.org PGP key: 7111B833 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
