On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:28 PM, ken brockman <krush1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Got it. I manage to get it to save to disk, but only by using the shell to > create an empty dictionary then pickling it and saving it to a file. Priming > the pump as it were. I had thought i had read that when you pickle and save > a list or dictionary to file, if it didn't already exist, it would be > created. That hasn't been my experience. Had I misunderstood or Am i doing > something wrong? > > Let me see if I understand your problem. You are pickling a dictionary and > finding that it will not work unless there already is an existing dictionary > for your pickled dictionary to write over. Otherwise, there is either no > write at all or the write is followed by a delete. Is that a reasonable > definition of your current problem? > > Robert Berman > > Really close to it Robert. No delete but an error msg. Something akin to > file dosen't exist, not found , or words to that effect . > Ken > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
Ken, The best way to get help here is to post a small example of your code that shows the problem, along with the complete traceback. Although at first they seem a little daunting, the traceback will make the problem obvious -- Joel Goldstick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
