Sept. 4, 2008
11:10 a.m.
>> Related but tangential question that we were discussing on the >> pygr[0] mailing list -- what is the "official" word on a scalable >> object store in Python? We've been using bsddb, but is there an >> alternative? And what if bsddb is removed? Brett> Beyond shelve there are no official plans to add a specific Brett> object store. Unless something has changed while I wasn't looking, shelve requires a concrete module under the covers: bsddb, gdbm, ndbm, dumbdbm. It's just a thin layer over one of them that makes it appear as if you can have keys which aren't strings. Skip