Dreams-program giving me trouble

[BurnTard]

Hi guys, it's me! Your least favourite tard has returned with noob-questions needing answers. I am working on making a program that will not only record my dreams in a file, but also store them by date, topic, keywords, and level of lucidness.

This is what I have so far:

ListOfKeywords=[]
ListOfDates=[]
ListOfTopics=[]
LevelOfLucidness=[]
 
 
temporarykeywords=[]
 
for n in [10]:
    InputKeywords=raw_input("Give a keyword for finding this dream again. ")
    temporarykeywords.append(InputKeywords)
    needmore=raw_input("Are there more keywords? ")
    if needmore.lower()=="no":
        break
 
 
for item in temporarykeywords:
    ListOfKeywords.append(item)
 
DateOfDream=raw_input("What date did you have the dream on? ")
if DateOfDream in ListOfDates:
    print
else:
    ListOfDates.append(DateOfDream)
 
 
 
TheTopicIs=raw_input("What topic was the dream on? ")
if TheTopicIs in ListOfTopics:
    print
else:
    ListOfTopics.append(TheTopicIs)
 
 
 
HowLucid=raw_input("How lucid was the dream? ")
if HowLucid in LevelOfLucidness:
    print
else:
    LevelOfLucidness.append(HowLucid)
 
 
 
Recountation=raw_input("Now explain the dream. ")
 
DreamInfo=[temporarykeywords,DateOfDream,TheTopicIs,HowLucid]
 

The problem I've encountered is: I need to make it append the stuff that gets added to the lists on the top to similar lists in another .py file. It also needs to be able to read those lists when I start the program, add all the items in them to the lists in this program, so that no word will ever be repeated in any list in the two files.

That's all for now, but if I get an answer to this, and try to continue, there WILL be more questions, brace yourselves.

[diegososa]

You should search Python doc files about: pickle

[bartonc]

Like this:

import cPickle as db  # an easy database
 
myDatabase = open('dreams.pdb', 'w') # create a file
 
myList = ['hello world']
db.dump(myList, myDatabase) # pickle database
myDatabase.close()
del myList  # you progams quits (simulated)
 
 
# then later
 
myDatabase = open('dreams.pdb') # open the previously created a file
myList = db.load(myDatabase)
myDatabase.close()
print myList

Really, BurnTard; please feel free to ask all the questions that you need to.
Remember: There are no stupid questions; only stupid answers.