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I have a dictionary that I would like to load from a file into a class variable. The dictionary holds configuration data. I would have different files for different configurations. I was wondering if there is a way to do this? I found pickle but that saves an existing instance as a copy so it can be loaded later.

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Could you give me an example? I think I have an idea what you mean, but I'm not sure.

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self.movement = {"run" : {"run1" : (45, 55, 110, 120)
                           "run2" : (45, 55, 110, 130)
                           "run3" : (45, 55, 110, 140)}}

I would like load the dictionary run from a file so I could just change the values in the file. These values will not change during the runtime of the program.

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Actually, cPickle does both saving and loading, with cPickle.dump and cPickle.load respectively.

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