[shelve] What are the limitations? Entering too many data crashes it on my machine!

["Martin v. Löwis"]

F. GEIGER wrote:
> Can anybody help to resolve this?

Sounds like a bug somewhere. There is a good chance that the bug is in 
bsddb 1.85, which is reported to have bugs. You may want to try using 
Sleepycat BSDDB 3.x or 4.0 instead, to which a Python wrapper is 
available at sf.net/projects/pybsddb. If you try this approach, please 
report success or failure.

Regards,
Martin