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Pickling and shelving data

import cPickle, shelve print "Pickling lists." variety = ["sweet", "hot", "dill"] shape = ["whole", "spear", "chip"] brand = ["Claussen", "Heinz", "Vlassic"] f = open("pickles1.dat", "w") cPickle.dump(variety, f) cPickle.dump(shape, f) cPickle.dump(brand, f) f.close() print "\nUnpickling lists." f = open("pickles1.dat", "r") variety = cPickle.load(f) shape = cPickle.load(f) brand = cPickle.load(f) print variety, "\n", shape, "\n", brand f.close()