my computer is allergic to pickles

[Bob Fnord]

Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm using python to do some log file analysis and I need to store
> > on disk a very large dict with tuples of strings as keys and
> > lists of strings and numbers as values.
> I recommend that you'll use the shelve module. It stores data on disk and is more memory efficient than in-memory pickle objects.

OK, I got this to work with marshal. What makes shelve better?

Or, which situations does shelve suit better and which does
marshal suit better?