On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Jeremy <jlcon...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have lots of data that I currently store in dictionaries. However, > the memory requirements are becoming a problem. I am considering > using a database of some sorts instead, but I have never used them > before. Would a database be more memory efficient than a dictionary? > I also need platform independence without having to install a database > and Python interface on all the platforms I'll be using. Is there > something built-in to Python that will allow me to do this?
If you won't be using the SQL features of the database, `shelve` might be another option; from what I can grok, I sounds like a dictionary stored mostly on disk rather than entirely in RAM (not 100% sure though): http://docs.python.org/library/shelve.html It's in the std lib and supports several native dbm libraries for its backend; one of them should almost always be present. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
