shelve in a ZipFile?

[Terry Hancock]

I only just recently had a look at the shelve module, and it
looks pretty handy, my only question being, what if I really
want two shelves?   Must I use two files?

Also, it seems strange that shelve only works with 
filenames.  I would've expected there to at least be
a variant that would put a shelve database on a file
that is opened for read/write (that is a file object).

That would be handy if, for example, I wanted to couple
(and compress into the bargain) by putting my two
shelf files into a single zip archive.

Of course, I could do this with temporary files,
but I wonder if there's a simpler way?

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Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
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