Shelve or pickle module

[Ville M. Vainio]

"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> writes:


> A shelve is just a persistent dictionary that uses pickle to store
> the objects.  If you want to store one or a few objects, using
> pickle directly may be easier.  Any problem you may have with pickle
> (nonpickleable objects, security risks) will happen with shelve too.

Shameless plug warning!

If you want to store pickles "directly" in a directory with
shelve-like dict API, you may also be interested in my "pickleshare"
module:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pickleshare/0.3