Re: Python database of plain text editable by notepad or vi

2010-03-27 Thread James Harris
On 26 Mar, 14:58, Jon Clements wrote: > On 26 Mar, 09:49, James Harris wrote: ... > > I'm toying with some > > ideas for a way to help generate source code (in various languages, > > not just Python). If it goes ahead the text files would be mainly > > marked-up code snippets - with or without sy

Re: Python database of plain text editable by notepad or vi

2010-03-26 Thread Ethan Furman
Jon Clements wrote: On 26 Mar, 09:49, James Harris wrote: On 25 Mar, 22:56, Jon Clements wrote: On 25 Mar, 22:40, James Harris wrote: I am looking to store named pieces of text in a form that can be edited by a standard editor such as notepad (under Windows) or vi (under Unix) and th

Re: Python database of plain text editable by notepad or vi

2010-03-26 Thread Jon Clements
On 26 Mar, 09:49, James Harris wrote: > On 25 Mar, 22:56, Jon Clements wrote: > > > > > On 25 Mar, 22:40, James Harris wrote: > > > > I am looking to store named pieces of text in a form that can be > > > edited by a standard editor such as notepad (under Windows) or vi > > > (under Unix) and th

Re: Python database of plain text editable by notepad or vi

2010-03-26 Thread James Harris
On 26 Mar, 10:04, Harishankar wrote: ... > > Think of the database as similar to an associative array stored on > > disk. The only difference is I may want to play fast and loose with > > the keys in some ways - e.g. check for partial key matches or return a > > list of part-matched keys. The lang

Re: Python database of plain text editable by notepad or vi

2010-03-26 Thread Harishankar
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:49:53 -0700 (PDT) James Harris wrote: > On 25 Mar, 22:56, Jon Clements wrote: > > On 25 Mar, 22:40, James Harris > > wrote: > > > > > I am looking to store named pieces of text in a form that can be > > > edited by a standard editor such as notepad (under Windows) or vi >

Re: Python database of plain text editable by notepad or vi

2010-03-26 Thread James Harris
On 25 Mar, 22:56, Jon Clements wrote: > On 25 Mar, 22:40, James Harris wrote: > > > I am looking to store named pieces of text in a form that can be > > edited by a standard editor such as notepad (under Windows) or vi > > (under Unix) and then pulled into Python as needed. The usual record > > l

Re: Python database of plain text editable by notepad or vi

2010-03-26 Thread Almar Klein
Hi, On 25 March 2010 23:40, James Harris wrote: > I am looking to store named pieces of text in a form that can be > edited by a standard editor such as notepad (under Windows) or vi > (under Unix) and then pulled into Python as needed. The usual record > locking and transactions of databases ar

Re: Python database of plain text editable by notepad or vi

2010-03-25 Thread Jon Clements
On 25 Mar, 22:40, James Harris wrote: > I am looking to store named pieces of text in a form that can be > edited by a standard editor such as notepad (under Windows) or vi > (under Unix) and then pulled into Python as needed. The usual record > locking and transactions of databases are not requir

Re: Python database of plain text editable by notepad or vi

2010-03-25 Thread jkn
Kirbybase is one possibility. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/KirbyBase/1.9 J^n -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python database of plain text editable by notepad or vi

2010-03-25 Thread James Harris
I am looking to store named pieces of text in a form that can be edited by a standard editor such as notepad (under Windows) or vi (under Unix) and then pulled into Python as needed. The usual record locking and transactions of databases are not required. Another way to look at it is to treat the