small, fast and cross-platform flat-file database for python

[Peter Hansen]

Eric Baker wrote:
> 
> "Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:3FBE4940.BD960E76 at engcorp.com...
> > mir nazim wrote:
> > >
> > > i want to know if there is any flat-file relational database system
> >                                  ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > I'm no database expert, but aren't these two terms contradictory in
> > some important way?
> >
> > -Peter
> 
> Depends what your definition if the word "is" is :)
> 
> In my early perl days, i used a simple text file based SQL "database".
> http://search.cpan.org/~shgun/Sprite-3.21/Sprite.pm
> 
> Now with Python, i would probably use SQLite, which isnt exactly a "flat
> text file", but still a nice lightweight database for *nix and win32 IMHO.
> http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/

I thought it depended more on the definition of "relational", which I
understood to refer to operations such as "joins" between different
tables.  I suppose it could just be operations between different
searches of the same table, however, in which case I suppose it's
a valid term.

-Peter