[Groundhog]

I've done some work with the UI around player stats, which I'll show some screens of once I'm happy with it. Some more boring stuff now...

After spending time planning how to handle the saving/loading of data - mainly related to database queries and converting the output of these queries into the format I use within Python - dictionaries - I had an idea that seems stupidly simple in hindsight... why am I even using databases? I mean, I understand the benefits of relational databases, but why spend the time converting data between SQL and my Python dictionaries when I can just serialize the data using Python's pickle module or something similar?

There are some drawbacks to going with this method, but if I maintain my own 'foreign keys' correctly, I think the pros outweigh the cons. It also makes putting together a pure-Python editor for data very, very simple.