may be store them in sqlite ? On linux, fuse can also be an interesting option, gmailfs is written in python.
Enigma Curry wrote: > I need to store a large number of files in an archive. From Python, I > need to be able to create an archive, put files into it, modify files > that are already in it, and delete files already in it. > > The easy solution would be to use a zip file or a tar file. Python has > good standard modules for accessing those types. However, I would tend > to think that modifying or deleting files in the archive would require > rewriting the entire archive. > > Is there any archive format that can allow Python to modify a file in > the archive *in place*? That is to say if my archive is 2GB large and I > have a small text file in the archive I want to be able to modify that > small text file (or delete it) without having to rewrite the entire > archive to disk. > > Does anything like this exist? If nothing exists for Python, is there > something written in C maybe that I could wrap (preferably you won't > suggest wrapping the ext2 filesystem driver.. ;) ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
