Hi Ken, Welcome to Python and to programming in general.
On 8 February 2012 13:40, ken brockman <krush1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello all: > I have a general and very basic question if I may. I am in the process > of attempting to write my first python app. I wanted to collect information > and save it to lists and dictionaries. My question is, is it possible to > save said lists and dictionaries in the program proper, or do i need to save > the information to files on the hard drive. You would save the information in files external and seperate to the source code of your program. Note however that you can in fact directly serialize or persist (fancy object oriented terms that basically means "to save to permanent storage, e.g. disk") Python objects very easily with Python standard functionality, referred to in Python terms as "pickling". See the "pickle" module for more information: http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html Note that it is more common for applications to use a database for data storage, such as SQLite, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server etc etc, rather than simple pickling, but for simple cases it (or even simple text files) might suffice. It all depends on your requirements... ;) Regards Walter _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
