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

[F. GEIGER]

"Thomas Weholt" <2002 at weholt.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Agree. My problems has always narrowed down to an error reported from
bsdb.
> It may be inaccurate , to say the least, to blame it on the shelve-module.
>
> I'll try to force use of gdbm instead in my project and see what happens.
>

Agreed. And the traceback tells, where the problems really lies:
bsddb.error: (22, 'Invalid argument').

I am an average Pythoneer, so I never was very interested in all that stuff
behunf shelve. I first have to get into all that, e.g. how to force a
different db backend to be used.

Kind regards
Franz