shelve crashing under Win ME

2007-06-30 Thread gluckj
Hi, I'm not a Win ME fan myself (I'm a Mac user), but I'm here in Thailand developing software for special-needs kids, and the test PC in my home office is a Win ME machine (sigh). So when I ported my Python program today to the PC, it quickly crashed. Everything seems to work except for shelve. U

Re: shelve crashing under Win ME

2007-06-30 Thread gluckj
Hi Jim, Thanks for your messages -- however, py2exe is NOT the issue -- as you can see with my example above, shelve is crashing even just by calling it from IDLE (latest PC version of IDLE & Python), running on a Win ME machine. Anyone else out there having access to a Win ME PC willing to try i

Re: shelve crashing under Win ME

2007-06-30 Thread gluckj
OK, here's my workaround for shelve -- it's primitive and obviously much slower (it saves the entire dictionary each time), and you have to manually save -- BUT: it works...even on the Win ME machine. And it's possibly more universally portable in the long run than shelve...Also, once you open the