shelve vs pickle

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hungjunglu at yahoo.com wrote in news:mailman.1000737500.12230.python-
list at python.org:

> --- In python-list at y..., kosh at a... wrote:
> 
>> What you might want to consider is using the ZODB. 
> 
> Good point. ZODB seems to be very reliable.
> 
> My opinion is that shelve should not be part of the standard Python 
> distribution. But that's just my own opinion.

It just should let you do a sync or flush. gdbm can do sync.