How do you lock your web app data?

[Franz GEIGER]

Thanks a lot to all who contributed. The posts were numerous, comprehensive
and of great help. It's always a pleasure to be here!

Best regards
Franz GEIGER

"Franz GEIGER" <fgeiger at datec.at> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
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> I began to play around with cgi scripts and of course use Python for that.
> And man, it is a pleasure to do that with Python! It really is a snap.
After
> about a day I had written an Issue Tracker, where People can add software
> feature requests and bug reports. At this time I add functionality to edit
> and delete the entries - until now they only could have been added.
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> So  an important issue enters the game: How do I lock others out, when one
> edits/writes records? Please get me right: This will not be a heavy load
app
> nor will it be to handle requests and reports from hundreds of people.
> Therefore and because I just settled out to explore cgi I decided to use
> text files and pickle files for maintaining data and state, which is very
> convenient.
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> Of course I could take a database as backend but I wonder if there are
other
> possibilities to achieve that "serialization"? How do you do it? Do you
> always use a database? Is it worth the effort doing it without a database?
>
> The server is an NT box running IIS4. Python is of version 2.0
(AvtiveState
> distribution).
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> Any hint is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance and best regards
> Franz GEIGER
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