Paul Rubin wrote: > 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?
No. Call the .sync() method. Unfortunately, the shelve module is not well-documented. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
