shelve: writing out updates?!

[phil hunt]

On 30 Jul 2005 17:48:39 -0700, Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>Shelve uses dbm and pickle to make a persistent object store.  The
>"db" in "dbm" stands for "database" and while I didn't expect full
>ACID capability,

What is ACID?

> I'd have thought there'd be at least some minimum
>gesture towards durability of updates.  But say that s is a shelve
>object.  If I say
>
>   s[whatever] = value
>
>there is no way apparent from the shelve docs to get the update
>flushed out to the disk file until the shelve is actually closed.

Wierd. I'd expect something like an s.flush() function.


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