Python database of plain text editable by notepad or vi

James Harris james.harris.1 at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 26 06:12:57 EDT 2010


On 26 Mar, 10:04, Harishankar <v.harishan... at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> > Think of the database as similar to an associative array stored on
> > disk. The only difference is I may want to play fast and loose with
> > the keys in some ways - e.g. check for partial key matches or return a
> > list of part-matched keys. The language name could be part of the key
> > but I'd also need to store variants for specific language versions.
> > I'm not sure yet how it will all pan out. As I say, just throwing
> > around some ideas.
...
> I am not sure exactly what you need, but would you consider using
> something like ConfigParser module provided by Python? It appears to be
> something similar to what you need.

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.

James



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