Terry Hancock wrote: > I only just recently had a look at the shelve module.... > That would be handy if, for example, I wanted to couple > (and compress into the bargain) by putting my two > shelf files into a single zip archive.
You are, however, fooling yourself if you think a shelve solution can be made to gracefully interact with a zip- compressed version. In order to zip the shelve data, it must all be seen in a pass, so every update would necessarily rewrite the entire shelve storage. much better to extract the entire shelve file, operate on it, and re-compress it. Even if uncompressed, the zip archive format is not going to happily allow you to change the size of any of the "files" it stores. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
