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