I am currently having problems displaying a file correctly once i have written a dictionary to the file. For this program the input file needs to have the format:
ID: Date: Dayskept: ProductName e.g. 1:12/12/2011:12:A
This is fine the first time I read the example file into a dictionary, but once i save the dictionay into a new file and try to open this file i get the output:
1:"date":12/12/2011, "life":12, "name":A
Is there an easy way to format the data in the dictionary before it is written to file?
Thanks for any advice given :)
def loadProduct(fileName):
global cheeseDictionary
f = open(fileName,"r")
line = f.readline() # Reads line from file
while line:
line = line[:-1]
data = split(line,":") # Splits line when there is a colon
cheeseDictionary[data[0]] = {"date":data[1], "life":data[2], "name":data[3]} # Stores each split item
line = f.readline() # Next line
f.close()
print cheeseDictionary
def saveProduct(fileName):
global cheeseDictionary
f = open(fileName,"w")
pickle.dump(cheeseDictionary, f)
f.close()