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On 04/27/2016 09:06 PM, Christopher Reimer wrote:
> On 4/27/2016 8:52 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:

>>   In fact if it were me I would save game state to some kind of ini file,
>> which would mean manually going through each object and writing out the
>> relevant data to the ini file using the right syntax. And then reverse
>> the process when restoring from a file.  XML could be another format
>> used for your file, if you're into that kind of thing.
>
> Funny that you should mention the ini file. I wrote a ConfigParser class
> for my const['whatever'] variable. It wouldn't take much to use that in
> the meantime until I get a handle on pickle.

If you are saving chess game state, you should look at the Portable Game 
Notation format:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Game_Notation

--
~Ethan~