Which database system?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Steve D'Aprano
<steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 04:24 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> but switching your dict/list system to be
>> disk-backed is a lot harder.
>
> import shelve
>
> :-)
>
>
>
> Now you have two problems :-)
>

Yeah, like: How do you do a query (anything more complicated than
direct lookup) without loading everything into memory?

Though I had forgotten about shelve. It's not something I use often...
actually I don't think I've ever used it more than "hello world".

ChrisA