Very Stupid Newbie Question Regarding Databases

[Thomas Weholt]

55wgm_guy at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> Okay, Im obviously new to the Python world, but I have a project Im
> working on that will require databases. In particular, I want to store
> multiple records in the format:
> 
> Name:
> Email:
> Phone Number:
> (etc)
> 
> Im starting to look at the gdbm, dbm, and anydbm modules. However, it
> seems to me that to store records in the above format would require
> some sort of key to retrieve a particular record.  How can the *dbm
> modules do this?
> 
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You could create an object too, like this :

class person_record(name, email, phone):
	
	def __init__(self, name, email, phone):
		self.name = name
		self.email = email	
		self.phone = phone


to store them in a database, use shelve:

import shelve
db = shelve.open('database','cw')

person = person_record("thomas","thomas at bibsyst.no","1-800-Python")

to store by a persons name :

db["thomas"] = person

or by phone :

db["1-800-python"] person

db.close()