"Enigma Curry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
Yes, what you want is called a database. Try the bsddb module or something with MySQL depending on your requirements. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
