Is "shelve" thread-safe on Windows?

[Andrew Dolan]

Hi All,

I hope to use the shelve module to store data which may be accessed from
several Python CGI scripts at once.  I have studied the source-code and it
seems that the anydbm code (that shelve relies on) falls-back to using the
dumbdbm module on Windows which is not safe for concurrent access (according
to comments in its source code).

Can anyone suggest a simple way to gain the functionality of "shelve" on a
Windows platform, but which is safe for handling concurrent accesses (like
from CGI scripts)?

Cheers,

Ian.

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