Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The facts table cannot be kept in memory because it is too big. I need to > store it on disk, be able to read incrementally, and make statistics. In most > cases, the "statistic" will be simple sum of the measures, and counting the > number of facts affected. To be effective, reading the facts from disk should > not involve complex conversions. For this reason, storing in CSV or XML or any > textual format would be bad. I'm thinking about a binary format, but how can I > interface that with Python? > > I already looked at: > > - xdrlib, which throws me DeprecationWarning when I store some integers > - struct which uses format string for each read operation, I'm concerned about > its speed > > What else can I use?
pytables (<http://www.pytables.org/>) looks like the right kind of thing. -M- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
