Re: pickling multiple dictionaries

2006-05-24 Thread manstey
Thanks very much. How large is *really* large for making pytables worthwhile. Our python script generates an xml file of about 450Mb. Is pytables worth using then? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pickling multiple dictionaries

2006-05-24 Thread Hans Georg Krauthaeuser
manstey wrote: > Hi, > > I am running a script that produces about 450,000 dictionaries. I tried > putting them into a tuple and then pickling the tuple, but the tuple > gets too big. Can I pickle dictionaries one after another into the same > file and then read them out again? > > Cheers, > Matt

Re: pickling multiple dictionaries

2006-05-24 Thread Miki
Hello Matthew, You can try either http://docs.python.org/lib/module-shelve.html or any other database bindings with blobs. HTH, Miki http://pythonwise.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list