Question

I’m trying to create a program that moves a little man forward by walking or running etc.
I need to be able to save the state of the little man and load it at any given time and I have no idea how to do this. Could anyone please help me get the ball rolling?

Answer 1

You will probably have the state (the position of the character, maybe something else) stored in some sort of Python data structures. You could create a file storing this information. The most obvious ways are:

1. Create a plain-text file with text/numbers needed to recreate the state. You will need to parse it to load the state, but you can choose any file format you like.
2. Use pickle to dump your Python objects to a file directly. You will then read them using pickle.load and won’t have to bother parsing the file.