Persistant dictionary with lockable elements

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Will McGugan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to have a persistant dictionary in a server so that incoming
> requests acquire a specific Python object, do something with it then
> return. There wont be that many objects but it is the persistance that
> is important here, I want the information to survive server re-starts /
> crashes. The Shelve module seems ideal for this, but because the server
> will be multithreaded I would like to be able to lock individual
> elements of the shelve while they are being processed (not just the
> entire Shelve object).
> 
> Is there some way of using Shelve like this, or should I just move to a
> more typical database solution?

You may want to try with the ZODB. Or with SQLite.



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