On 3/18/07, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Nogradi
> wrote:
>
> >> f = open('file.txt','r')
> >> for line in f:
> >> db[line.split(' ')[0]] = line.split(' ')[-1]
> >> db.sync()
> >
> > What is db here? Looks like a dictionary but that doesn't have a sync
> > method.
>
> Shelves (`shelve` module) have this API. And syncing forces the changes
> to be written to disks, so all caching and buffering of the operating
> system is prevented. So this may slow down the program considerably.
It is a handle for bsddb
import bsddb
db=bsddb.hashopen('db_filename')
Syncing will defenitely slow down. I will slow that down. But is there
any improvement I can do to the other part the splitting and setting
the key value/pair?
thanks
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