Data store solution need help

[Tim Chase]

On 05/14/2010 08:18 AM, Haulyn Jason wrote:
> I am a Java programmer, now I am working on a Python program. At the
> moment, I need to store some data from user's input, no database, no
> xml, no txt(we can not make users open the data file by vim or other
> text editor).

You don't mention what type of data you want to store?  Is it a 
single string?  Multiple strings?  Complex nested data?

And how do you want to access it?

Python provides you any number of options:

- you can use standard Python file objects to read/write content 
in a file format of your own definition

- you can use the ConfigParser module to read/write an old-school 
.INI style file (which can also be edited in a text editor, but 
doesn't have to be)

- you can use the "anydbm" module to store key/value pairs of 
strings with an internal user-interface much like a dictionary

- you can use the "pickle" module to persist Python objects into 
files

- you can use the "shelve" module to combine the "pickle" 
persistence with the DBM layer

- you can use the built-in (as of Python2.5) "sqlite3" module for 
a single-file database with full SQL capabilities without the 
need to install a SQL server (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, etc)

- you can persist to cloud storage or to your own web-server 
using the urllib/urllib2 modules


But without knowing what you want to store or how you want to 
access it, it's hard to offer more concrete advice.

-tkc