how good is shelve?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Peter> at the moment I'm writing a small web application with
    Peter> python. Because I'm lazy I does not store the data for it in a
    Peter> mySQL-Database or something similar. Instead I use shelve to
    Peter> store the data. Now my question is: will I get problems if my web
    Peter> application becomes famous (I don't think it will, but who
    Peter> knows?) and the data to store gets big?

If your application becomes famous you'll probably have difficulties with
file corruption before it gets big.  Make sure you are locking the file
properly.  How to do that is platform-dependent.

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