Persistent Queue implementations?

[Robin Becker]

In article <aue9c0$fbo$1 at baldur.whoi.edu>, Karl A. Krueger
<kkrueger at example.edu> writes
>
>I shan't bother with the shelf, since Kevin Altis's advice was the right
>way to do it.  Here's my cPickle-based queue, which appears to be both
>the right thing and fast as heck.  I don't diddle around with making my
>own semaphores -- inheriting from Queue.Queue does the job:
..... Aaron Watters of gadfly fame always claims that marshal is much
faster than cPickle, may be size dependent and certainly marshal can't
do everything that pickle can.
-- 
Robin Becker