How to save a list to a file and read it as a list type?

Question

Say I have the list score=[1,2,3,4,5] and it gets changed whilst my program is running. How could I save it to a file so that next time the program is run I can access the c

Answer 1

pickle and other serialization packages work. So does writing it to a .py file that you can then import.

>>> score = [1,2,3,4,5]
>>> 
>>> with open('file.py', 'w') as f:
...   f.write('score = %s' % score)
... 
>>> from file import score as my_list
>>> print(my_list)
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]