Is shelve/dbm supposed to be this inefficient?

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Wednesday 01 August 2007 16:08, Thomas Jollans wrote:
> Have you considered a directory full of pickle files ? (In effect,
> replacing the dbm with the file system) i.e. something like (untested)
> 
> class DirShelf(dict):
<SNIP sample implementation of DirShelf>

A very interesting idea.  I'll have to see how that plays out
performance-wise.  Thanks for the idea, and the roughed-out code!

j

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