On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 20:51, gabor farkas wrote: > hi, > > i have a big dictionary... thx for all the info.. just for you to know, i ended up with 'shelve'. because my keys are strings (unicode ones, but i encoded them to UTF-8 for shelve), but the values are string + list-of-strings pairs... so not strings :) but shelve works perfectly... thanks, gabor