> I'm looking for a fairly lightweight key/value store that works for > this type of problem: I'd start with a benchmark and try some of the things that are already in the standard library: - bsddb - sqlite3 (table of key, value, index key) - shelve (though I doubt this one)
You might find that for a little effort you get enough out of one of these. Another module which is not in the standard library is hdf5/PyTables and in my experience very fast. HTH, -- Miki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
