Newby: Dictionaries as file objects?

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d_blade8 at hotmail.com (Lemniscate) wrote in
news:7396d2b2.0206101224.61005b7f at posting.google.com: 

> I agree with David.  However, depending on exactly you want to be
> doing (and be able to do), you may want to look into the dbm modules
> (such as dbm, dbhash, etc.).  These are, surprise, database modules
> but they allow for the storage of dictionary items.....

Damn! dbm doesn't appear to be available for windows. And dhash, doesn't 
seem to allow me to store a dictionary as a value.

Any other suggestions? 

> ......Now, pickle,
> shelve, and the like are perhaps the best things for storing Python
> objects (let's say a user-created object that contains mixed types)
> but the dbm modules have their uses too, based on EXACTLY what you
> want to do.  Anyway, have fun.
> 
> Lem
> 

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