On 30 Jul 2005 17:48:39 -0700, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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,
What is ACID? > 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. Wierd. I'd expect something like an s.flush() function. -- Email: zen19725 at zen dot co dot uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
