Ditch use of pickle

[ben174]

A couple people on reddit mentioned Pickle has some inadequacies and probably isn't necessary for this project.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1gzb50/rikeripsum_a_lorem_ipsum_type_text_generator_but/capdbrx

I could probably just use a flat text file for data.

[rowedonalde]

How about a sqlite store? That way, you can still index by sentence length quickly.

[ben174]

Yea. But I'm wondering if sqlite performs less than pickle. Maybe flat text is better for something so simple.

[danielquinn]

If you go with a sqlite store, you could extend this to include all of the main characters and fetch conversational fragments between them, or grab lines from just one or two characters:

tngipsum.generate_paragraph(sentences=6)
tngipsum.generate_sentence(characters=(PICARD, RIKER, CRUSHER), words=8)

[DanAlbert]

You could also use the json module. It has a nearly identical API to pickle, and is plenty portable.