#!/usr/bin/env python """ @author: jstrick Created on Wed Mar 20 23:52:46 2013 """ import pickle from collections import namedtuple fields = 'term firstname lastname birthstate party' President = namedtuple('President', fields) # note: In Real Life, definition of President would be # in module shared between read_potus_info.py # and save_potus_info.py with open('potus.pic','rb') as POTUS: presidents = pickle.load(POTUS) for p in presidents: print("{} {}".format(p.firstname, p.lastname))