[Tutor] Which should it be, lists, tuples, dictionary or files?

[Alan Gauld]

On 03/01/12 07:31, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:

> It's probably worth mentioning that shelve is not secure; loading a
> saved shelf can involve executing arbitrary python code embedded
> inside it. This probably isn't important for this particular project,
> but maybe in the future, if you consider using shelf for something
> more security-conscious...

A good point, shelve should be treated more like an internal persistence 
tool than a general purpose database. It's
fine if you know what you are storing but if random data
is being put into it there could be problems.

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