Python choice of database

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On 20 Jun 2005 11:43:28 -0700, rumours say that "Oren Tirosh"
<oren.tirosh at gmail.com> might have written:

>For very short keys and record (e.g. email addresses) you can use
>symbolic links instead of files. The advantage is that you have a
>single system call (readlink) to retrieve the contents of a link. No
>need to open, read and close.

readlink also does open, read and close too.  And why go through
indirection?  Why not make indexes into subdirectories, say, and
hard-link the records under different filenames?

>This works only on posix systems, of course.

There aren't any non-posix-conformant --or, at least, any
non-self-described-as-posix-conformant :-)-- operating systems in wide
use today.

Hint: win32file.CreateHardLink
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