Saideep A V S wrote: >Hello Sir, > > Thank You a ton. I was looking for this function. As far what I've >understood from the "Shelve" module is that, there would be no memory >wastage and the whole transactions would be done from and to the file we >specify. Am I right?. > > My actual task is to build a basic dictionary for two languages and store >word and its meaning in another language in a file and must be able to >access it through on-disk Hash tables. as these would be saving memory space >for a huge data. > >so, I hope shelve is the right one, I am searching for., I shall try out >with the function. > > >Thank You once again. > >Cheers, >Saideep > > > Plz remember allways reply to the python group also. They are many many many ones to know more than i do! Well, i dont quite think that it would be "no memory wastage", since when you read/write from disk, there is memory involved in the process.
I *really* believe that, when data goes huge, a *real* database (like postgres, and others) has to come and play the game. Hope that helps Gerardo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
