MindMaster32 wrote: > I am writing a script that has to read data from an ASCII file of > about 50 Mb and do a lot of searches and calculations with that data. > That would be a classic problem solved by the use of a database > (SQLite would suit just fine), but that would require the user to > install more packages other than python itself, and that I am trying > to avoid. > > Since the data is not too large, I wonder if there is another way to > store all data in memory and work with it more or less like a > database, doing searches and working with datafields. > > This is not clear to me how can be implemented. I thought of creating > a class with the data structure, and creating a list of objects of > that class, each one containing one line of data from the "database". > > Any thoughts or suggestions?
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