On Feb 19, 11:07 am, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use a RDBMS (a database), they tend to be good at this kind of operations.
yeah, one of the options is metakit ... sqlite and buzhug both looked promising but the constraint of pythons 2.2 and 2.3 ruled that out. disadvantage of metakit is that it's not pure python, meaning possible integration problems. the system has to be deployed at 200+ sites worldwide on a mix of RHEL 3 and 4 based systems, with some Debian clusters thrown in, and running real production ... hence my desire to find a pure-python solution if at all possible. it's looking grim. JT -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list