List of objects X Database

[Michael Bentley]

On Oct 3, 2007, at 1:01 PM, MindMaster32 wrote:

> I am writing a script that has to read data from an ASCII file of
> about 50 Mb and do a lot of searches and calculations with that data.
> That would be a classic problem solved by the use of a database
> (SQLite would suit just fine), but that would require the user to
> install more packages other than python itself, and that I am trying
> to avoid.
> Since the data is not too large, I wonder if there is another way to
> store all data in memory and work with it more or less like a
> database, doing searches and working with datafields.
>
> This is not clear to me how can be implemented. I thought of creating
> a class with the data structure, and creating a list of objects of
> that class, each one containing one line of data from the "database".
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions?

Berkeley DB?