splitting a large dictionary into smaller ones

[per]

On Mar 22, 10:51 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> per <perfr... at gmail.com> writes:
> > i would like to split the dictionary into smaller ones, containing
> > only hundreds of thousands of keys, and then try to pickle them.
>
> That already sounds like the wrong approach.  You want a database.

fair enough - what native python database would you recommend? i
prefer not to install anything commercial or anything other than
python modules