Re: Wait... WHAT?

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On 02/12/2014 01:21 PM, eneskristo@gmail.com wrote:
> I think of it as a bit strange. Should I report it as a bug? I was
trying to incorporate a save/load, and this happened.

What happened?  I'm not seeing any exception information.  I do see code
that doesn't quite make sense.

>     def save():
>         target = open ("save.swroc", 'w')
>         target.write([counter, loop, number_of_competitors, competitors])

Do you know what actually gets written? IE do you know what the
resulting text file looks like?

>     def load():
>         target = open("save.swroc", 'r')
>         the_array = target
>         counter = the_array[0]
>         loop = the_array[1]
>         number_of_competitors = the_array[2]
>         competitors = the_array[3]

This function isn't right.  Question for you, what does open() return?
And if you assign that to "the_array," what makes you think you can
dereference open() as it it were an array?  open() does not provide a
__getitem__() dunder method.

Python is pretty good at doing what you want usually, but you're missing
a step.  Python's not bug-free, but the first suspect in a case like
this is your code.

There's an outside chance you want to explore the "pickle" module.

Thread

Wait... WHAT? eneskristo@gmail.com - 2014-02-12 11:43 -0800
  Re: Wait... WHAT? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 13:13 -0700
  Re: Wait... WHAT? eneskristo@gmail.com - 2014-02-12 12:21 -0800
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 20:38 +0000
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 14:35 -0700
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 14:39 -0700
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-02-12 16:14 -0600
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 23:36 +0000
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 17:01 -0700
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-02-12 18:44 -0600
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-13 00:59 +0000
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 12:10 +1100
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-02-12 21:29 -0600
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 14:47 +1100
      Re: Wait... WHAT? eneskristo@gmail.com - 2014-02-13 09:46 -0800
        Re: Wait... WHAT? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-02-13 18:25 +0000
        Re: Wait... WHAT? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 15:22 -0700
  Re: Wait... WHAT? eneskristo@gmail.com - 2014-02-12 12:43 -0800
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 20:56 +0000
      Re: Wait... WHAT? eneskristo@gmail.com - 2014-02-12 12:59 -0800
        Re: Wait... WHAT? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 08:17 +1100
        Re: Wait... WHAT? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 21:23 +0000
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-12 23:09 +0000

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