Flat file, Python accessible database?

Jorgen Grahn jgrahn-nntq at algonet.se
Wed Nov 9 15:37:59 EST 2005


On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:02:20 +0000 (UTC), Karlo Lozovina <_karlo_ at _mosor.net_> wrote:
> bkhl at stp.lingfil.uu.se (=?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_Lindstr=C3=B6m?=) wrote in 
> news:877jbsxnrx.fsf at lucien.dreaming:
>
>> If you need it to be SQL-like, SQLite seems to be the right thing.
>
> Tried that one, but had some problems setting things up. On the other 
> hand, BerkeleyDB + Pybsddb worked like a charm, with no setting up (under 
> Cygwin).
>
> The problem is, Pybsddb is as badly documented as Windows Registry, no 
> examples, no tutorials, no nothing :(.

What about the standard module bsddb, then? It's not a /relational/ database
though, if that is what you're looking for.  But it's simple to understand,
well documented, and unbelievably fast.

/Jorgen

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