python and very large data sets???

[Aahz]

In article <aa731c$q53$0 at 216.39.172.122>, Bengt Richter <bokr at oz.net> wrote:
>
>All this stuff will be re-inventing data base stuff, so you might
>want to consider going that route, as others have suggested. A flat
>fixed-width source sounds like an easy importing/loading problem. I
>haven't tried MySQL on windows, but on Linux is was not hard to get
>going, and it might be faster than a fully transactional DB like
>postgresql (I don't know any recent benchmarks). I would guess that you
>could beat the disk space requirements by writing a special-purpose
>program, though.

A recent PC Magazine article said that MySQL is *very* fast,
particularly if you don't need transactional processing.
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