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persistence

I guess I could write some custom
parsing code to process the “internal
format” used by “print()”. It shouldn’t It might be worth looking at
using something other than a plain
take me all that long...
“print()” to format the data prior
to saving it to the data file? I’d
certainly look into it.

Parsing the data in the file is a possibility…although it’s complicated by all those
square brackets, quotes, and commas. Writing the required code is doable,
but it is a lot of code just to read back in your saved data.
Of course, if the data is in a more easily parseable format, the task would likely be
easier, so maybe the second option is worth considering, too?

Can you think of a function you created from earlier
in this book that might help here?

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