shelf-like list?

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Aug 12, 1:37 pm, Thomas Jollans <tho... at jollybox.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 August 2010, it occurred to kj to exclaim:
>
> > I'm looking for a module that implements "persistent lists": objects
> > that behave like lists except that all their elements are stored
> > on disk.  IOW, the equivalent of "shelves", but for lists rather
> > than a dictionaries.
 . . .
> You could simply use pickle to save the data every once in a while.

That is a very reasonable solution.