Python choice of database

[Philippe C. Martin]

Well that would be shelve I guess ... with the restrictions I mentioned.

Regards,

Philippe



Erik Max Francis wrote:

> Philippe C. Martin wrote:
> 
>> I am looking for a stand-alone (not client/server) database solution for
>> Python.
>> 
>> 1) speed is not an issue
>> 2) I wish to store less than 5000 records
>> 3) each record should not be larger than 16K
>> 
>> 
>> As I start with Python objects, I thought of using shelve, but looking at
>> the restrictions (record size + potential collisions) I feel I should
>> study my options a bit further before I get started.
> 
> Why not just use native Python data structures and pickle them?
>