On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 16:39 -0400, Jonathan Bryant wrote:

> My question is:  Will this /always/ work (given that the type of data I
> read out of the file is the same)?  Is it really that simple?

No, it won't *always* work in the sense that some data
types cannot be serialised. See also 18.9.1 of the manual.

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John Skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net>