On 12/01/2011 21:05, Scott McCarty wrote:
Sorry to ask this question. I have search the list archives and googled,
but I don't even know what words to find what I am looking for, I am
just looking for a little kick in the right direction.
I have a Python based log analysis program called petit
(http://crunchtools.com/petit). I am trying to modify it to manage the
main object types to and from disk.
Essentially, I have one object which is a list of a bunch of "Entry"
objects. The Entry objects have date, time, date, etc fields which I use
for analysis techniques. At the very beginning I build up the list of
objects then would like to start pickling it while building to save
memory. I want to be able to process more entries than I have memory.
With a strait list it looks like I could build from xreadlines(), but
once you turn it into a more complex object, I don't quick know where to go.
I understand how to pickle the entire data structure, but I need
something that will manage the memory/disk allocation? Any thoughts?
To me it sounds like you need to use a database.
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