[MATRIX-SIG] cPickle/shelve and Numeric

[Konrad Hinsen]

> Is there a version of cPickle/shelve for Numeric?
> If not, what is the best way to store arbitrary python objects (that
> may contain Numeric arrays) to dbm-style database files?

For the moment, use the pickler/unpickler defined in module Numeric
and put the result. I can think of a few ways to use it in shelve,
all of which untested, of course:

1) The "quick hack" solution:

   import shelve
   from Numeric import Pickler, Unpickler
   shelve.Pickler = Pickler
   shelve.Unpickler = Unpickler

2) Somewhat better: make a new module, called e.g. "array_shelve",
   and containing

   from shelve import *
   from Numeric import Pickler, Unpickler

3) Subclass everything from shelve and replace the methods referring
   to Pickler or Unpickler.

Konrad.
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