Scott McCarty wrote: > Been digging ever since I posted this. I suspected that the response might > be use a database. I am worried I am trying to reinvent the wheel. The > problem is I don't want any dependencies and I also don't need persistence > program runs.
I don't think sqlite3 counts as a dependency these days. > I kind of wanted to keep the use of petit very similar to > cat, head, awk, etc. But, that said, I have realized that if I provide the > analysis features as an API, you very well, might want persistence between > runs. > > What about using an array inside a shelve? > > Just got done messing with this in python shell: > > import shelve > > d = shelve.open(filename="/root/test.shelf", protocol=-1) > > d["log"] = () > d["log"].append("test1") > d["log"].append("test2") > d["log"].append("test3") > > Then, always interacting with d["log"], for example: > > for i in d["log"]: > print i > > Thoughts? That won't save you any memory as the whole value (the complete list) is unpickled once you say d["log"]. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list