David M. Cooke wrote: > "Amir Michail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Is there a program for editing shelve databases? > > > > Amir > > I doubt it. A shelf is basically just a file-based dictionary, where > the keys must be strings, while the values can be arbitrary objects. > An editor could handle the keys, but most likely not the values. > > If you have an editor for arbitrary objects, you could probably make > an editor for shelfs easily enough :-) > > Do you have a specific use in mind? That would be easier to handle > than the general case.
Such an editor could at least handle some basic types including nested lists and dictionaries. I've written an application that uses many shelve files. Sometimes I need to make a minor change to the data and don't really want to write code just to make that change. Amir > > -- > |>|\/|< > /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ > |David M. Cooke > |cookedm(at)physics(dot)mcmaster(dot)ca -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
