[Tutor] Questions about shelve

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:18:05PM -0600, Jackson wrote:
> Objective (Please see script below):
> Create simple server outage tracking db. While MySQL
> would be easer to use, it's not as much fun *grin*
> 
> Data layout:
> Each record consist of; hostname,date,problem,resolution with
> hostname and date beging key fields, and problem/resolution being multi-line text field.
> 
> What's missing:
> 1. Need to be able to enter more than one outage per server, did I read someplace that you can set Btree to allow dup keys?

Why multiple keys? Just make the value a list of outages.

> 
> 2. Change "end_of_field" char to Ctrl+a to allow multi line imput for problem and resolution fields.

Look into curses module (fairly complex) or Tkinter.

> 
> Thanks for you time.
> David Jackson
> 
> 
> -------------      Script -----------------------
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import shelve
> #
> people = shelve.open("/tmp/btree.db")
> host=raw_input("Enter Hostname: ")  	
> date=raw_input("Date of Outage: ")				problem=raw_input("Problem Descrption: ")
> resolution=raw_input("Problem Resolution: ")
> people[host]=[date,problem,resolution]
> people.close()
> 	
> 
> 
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