Shelve uses dbm and pickle to make a persistent object store. The "db" in "dbm" stands for "database" and while I didn't expect full ACID capability, I'd have thought there'd be at least some minimum gesture towards durability of updates. But say that s is a shelve object. If I say
s[whatever] = value there is no way apparent from the shelve docs to get the update flushed out to the disk file until the shelve is actually closed. If I'm using the shelve to store stuff in a long-running server, it could be months before the shelve closes. Is shelve really missing this capability? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
