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[Miki Tebeka]

> >From looking at the shelve info in the library reference, I get
> the impression it's tricky to change the values in the dict for
> existing keys and be sure they get changed on disk.
You can use writeback=True or call sync at the right places.


> How can you convert a tuple of strings to a string and back in a
> reliable deterministic way? The original strings may have ' " ,
> in them.
You can use marshal, json or any other serializing library.