"Gregory Piñero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To: "Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 12/24/06, Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Gregory Piñero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > open( filename[,flag='c'[,protocol=None[,writeback=False[,binary=None]]]]) > > Open a persistent dictionary. The filename specified is the base filename for > the underlying database. As a side-effect, an extension may be added to the > filename and more than one file may be created. By default, the underlying > database file is opened for reading and writing. The optional flag parameter has > the same interpretation as the flag parameter of anydbm.open. > > hth - Hendrik So how is that better than using marshal as I am now? Is it faster to load? Perhaps I could do speed tests to compare. -Greg I doubt it - originally I asked the question about a persistant dict because I thought that the scheme of periodically updating your live data could fruitfully be replaced by a "trickle" updating scheme to keep the stuff in better sync, rather than taking big lumps at a time... This may or may not be feasible - depends on what you are actually doing and if it can in fact be updated a little bit at a time instead of in a large lump at longer intervals. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
