How to write temporary data to file?

[Ravi Teja]

Thomas Ploch wrote:
> Ravi Teja schrieb:
> > Thomas Ploch wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I have a data structure that looks like this:
> >>
> >> d = {
> >> 	'url1': {
> >> 		'emails': ['a', 'b', 'c',...],
> >> 		'matches': ['d', 'e', 'f',...]
> >> 	},
> >> 	'url2': {...
> >> }
> >>
> >> This dictionary will get _very_ big, so I want to write it somehow to a
> >> file after it has grown to a certain size.
> >>
> >> How would I achieve that?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Thomas
> >
> > Pickle/cPickle are standard library modules that can persist data.
> > But in this case, I would recommend ZODB/Durus.
> >
> > (Your code example scares me. I hope you have benevolent purposes for
> > that application.)
> >
> > Ravi Teja.
> >
>
> Thanks, but why is this code example scaring you?
>
> Thomas

The code indicates that you are trying to harvest a _very_ (as you put
it) large set of email addresses from web pages. With my limited
imagination, I can think of only one group of people who would need to
do that. But considering that you write good English, you must not be
one of those mean people that needed me to get a new email account just
for posting to Usenet :-).

Ravi Teja.