John Pote wrote: > I would wish to secure this data gathering against crashes of the OS, > hardware failures and power outages.
My first thought when reading this is "SQLite" (with the Python wrappers PySqlite or APSW). See http://www.sqlite.org where it claims "Transactions are atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable (ACID) even after system crashes and power failures", ... or some of the sections in http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html which provide more technical background. If intending to rely on this for a mission critical system, one would be well advised to research independent analyses of the claims. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
