Fast persistent dictionary

[Tim Lavoie]

>>>>> "OP" ==   <original poster> writes:

    OP> I need a fairly fast and simple persistent dictionary for use
    OP> in a Python program. I'll only store two string values for
    OP> each key (a string also). It's important that the contents of
    OP> the dictionary are saved to disk as soon as possible so to
    OP> survive system failures in a consistent state.

How about the shelve module? It seems to be quick, and puts the
contents into a DBM-style database file. The values inserted are
arbitrary Python objects, as long as they can be pickled.

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