inbetween cPickle and MySQL

[Thomas Weholt]

Look at shelve in the standard distro. docs.

Thomas

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> I need a simple way to store lots of simple objects (compsed of
> strings only). Right now I'm using cPickle, which means I have to read
> in the intire file to find all object.attribute == X.
>
> Since the file will get pretty this will consume a lot of memory. One
> option is to put the objects in a SQL DB (Don't mention ZODB, I don't
> like it.) but that is so much trouble. Speed is not an issue.
>
> From my perl days I remeber some sort of "hash on a file"-thingy, that
> struck a middle ground between pickle and a full blow database. Is
> there anything like that in Python?
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> Alex Polite
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