Replacement for the shelve module?

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 13:45:32 EDT 2011


On 8/19/11 10:49 AM, Ken Watford wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Forafo San<ppv.grps at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Folks,
>> What might be a good replacement for the shelve module, but one that
>> can handle a few gigs of data. I'm doing some calculations on daily
>> stock prices and the result is a nested list like:
>
> For what you're doing, I would give PyTables a try.

For a few gigs of stock price data, this is what I use. Much better than SQLite 
for that amount of data.

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Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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