Streams

"A stream is data that you access in sequence.
You could think of it like a train that you watch from a tunnel entrance so that you can just see one car at a time. Or a stream of widgets coming across a conveyor belt requiring you to tighten a screw on each one before it passes by to the next person down the assembly line who has to pound it with a hammer, and so on. Or sticks floating down a river while you watch from a bridge."

Lesson: Basic I/O Streams

Started out Working through DougHellmann.com's PrettyPrinter Lesson

Module: pprint
Purpose: Pretty-print data structures

The output is kept on a single line, if possible, and indented correctly when split across multiple lines.

PrettyPrint dictionaries & have them printed and sorted by key
pprint seems to sort the keys for you after python2.5 for both single and multi-line output

Changed in version 2.5: Dictionaries are sorted by key before the display is computed; before 2.5, a dictionary was sorted only if its display required more than one line, although that wasn’t documented.

"Generally, though, if you're writing data structures to a file and want them human-readable and writable, you might want to consider using an alternate format like YAML or JSON." [StackOverFlow Tip]

dataObject = [ (i, { 'a':'A',
               'b':'B',
               'c':'C',
               'd':'D',
               'e':'E',
               'f':'F',
               'g':'G',
               'h':'H',
               })
         for i in xrange(3)
         ]

How to send the output of pprint module to a log file

This suggestion

pprint.pprint(dataobject, logFile)

Makes the following code work

logFile=open('c:\\temp\\mylogfile'+'.txt', 'w')
pprint.pprint(dataobject, logFile)
logFile.close()

I wonder if markdown or ReST is supported by blogger. [No]

# Welcome to Markdown Syntax #

**Markdown** 
###Lists

Unordered lists use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens — interchangably — as list markers:

*   Star .. multiply sign
-   Dash .. minus sign
+   Cross .. plus sign
+ are all equivalent

I wonder if markdown or ReST is supported by blogger.
...
Nope.

Reduce Tk-tinkering

tinker

               verb (used without object)

7.  to busy oneself with a thing without useful results:

8.  to work unskillfully or clumsily at anything.

To reduce Tk-tinkering 

Use EasyGUI

"EasyGUI is a module for very simple, very easy GUI programming in the Python programming language.
... It allows you to program in a traditional linear fashion, and to put up dialogs for simple input and output when you need to. If you have not yet learned the event-driven paradigm for GUI programming, EasyGUI will allow you to be productive with very basic tasks immediately." S.Ferg.

A tinker was originally an itinerant tinsmith, who mended household utensils.
 It is part of  an image that come to mind when  I work with Tkinter.

Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI (Graphical User Interface) package.

 Thinking in Tkinter ... "I've been trying to teach myself Tkinter out of various books, and I'm finding it more difficult than I think it should be. ..." S. Ferg.