request for Details about Dictionaries in Python

[Gerardo Herzig]

Saideep A V S wrote:

>Hello Sir,
>
>   Thank You a ton. I was looking for this function. As far what I've
>understood from the "Shelve" module is that, there would be no memory
>wastage and the whole transactions would be done from and to the file we
>specify. Am I right?.
>
>  My actual task is to build a basic dictionary for two languages and store
>word and its meaning in another language in a file and must be able to
>access it through on-disk Hash tables. as these would be saving memory space
>for a huge data.
>
>so, I hope shelve is the right one, I am searching for., I shall try out
>with the function.
>
>
>Thank You once again.
>
>Cheers,
>Saideep
>
>  
>
Plz remember allways reply to the python group also. They are many many 
many ones to know more than i do!
Well, i dont quite think that it would be "no memory wastage", since 
when you read/write from disk, there is memory involved in the process.

I *really* believe that, when data goes huge, a *real* database (like 
postgres, and others) has to come and play the game.

Hope that helps

Gerardo