Shelve problem: why so big?

[Thomas Weholt]

"Oleg Broytmann" <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote in message
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> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:00:52AM +0000, Geert-Jan Giezeman wrote:
> > I am trying to create a shelve from a table of 1100 by 1100 floating
> > point numbers, which I want to store as 1100 lists of length 1100,
> > indexed by a key. Unfortunately, I get an error when I try to create
> > this:
> > bsddb.error; (22, Invalid argument)
>
>    http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq04.099.htp
>
> Oleg.
> --
>      Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
>            Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
>

I've experienced this problem if I don't close the db-connection after using
it. Be sure that you call close before ending the script/program.

Thomas