''' Created on 1 Nov 2010 @author: bbates ''' import sys, os, string, time, cPickle def saveData(num): fo = open("bin"+str(num)+".dat", "wb") for i in range(1,num): aString = "some data" aString = "some data" cPickle.dump(aString, fo, protocol = cPickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL) fo.close() if __name__ == '__main__': for i in range(1,int(sys.argv[1])): print str(i)+"\n" saveData(i)