#!/usr/bin/env python # Filename: pickling.py import cPickle as p #import pickle as p shoplistfile='shoplist.data' # the name of the file where we will store the object shoplist=['apple','mango','carrot'] # Write to the file f=file(shoplistfile,'w') p.dump(shoplist,f) # dump the object to a file f.close() del shoplist # remove the shoplist # Read back from the storage f=file(shoplistfile) storedlist=p.load(f) print storedlist