Thanks for the info Nick. I plan on accessing the data in pretty much random order, and once the database is built, it will be read only. At this point Im not too concerned about access times, just getting something to work. I've been messing around with both bt and hash with limited success, which led me to think that maybe I was going beyond some internal limit for the data size.It works great on a limited set of data, but once I turn it loose on the full set, usually several hours later, it either causes a hard reset of my machine or the HD grinds on endlessly with no apparent progress. Is there a limit to the size of data you can place per key?
Thanks for the MySQL suggestion, I'll take a look. -JM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
