Shelve problem: why so big?

[Emile van Sebille]

"Geert-Jan Giezeman" <geert at cs.uu.nl> wrote in message
news:9sdol4$2te$1 at samos.cs.uu.nl...
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<snip big shelf file issue>

> 2)Are there ways to circumvent those problems? Use a different
> database (I like shelves, though), ...

I'm *not* using shelve, so I can't help you directly there.

I do read in and create a dict from a csv formatted file with a data set of
floats (92 byte key, 96 fields/record, ~83000 records, lots of zeros in
records)  and it eats about ~24 Mbytes on disk, so smaller is certainly
manageable.


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Emile van Sebille
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