according to the book instruduction , i use shelve Module to write record to file.
i only write ten records like this: name sex age jim male 22 tom male 23 lucy female 21 .................................................others( about ten records) but i find the size of this file .oh my god , it is about 24k the file is too large ! is it normal ? i don't dare to think that if i has 1000 records , it will be a very large file! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list