I am trying to understand your points Chris. On the one hand you say: On Apr 14, 6:22 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, no, a thousand times no! If I am doing financial transactions, > even if I'm alone on my machine, I will demand full ACID compliance.
On the other you describe a bookmark storage scheme (which it seems you are recommending); to wit > Suppose bookmarks are stored like this: > > r"""Some-Browser-Name web bookmarks file - edit with care > url:http://www.google.com/ > title: Search engine > icon: whatever-format-you-want-to-use > > url:http://www.duckduckgo.com/ > title: Another search engine > > url:http://www.python.org/ > > url:ftp://192.168.0.12/ > title: My FTP Server > desc: Photos are in photos/, videos are in videos/ > Everything else is in other/ > user: root > pass: secret > """ > > The parsing of this file is pretty simple. Blank line marks end of > entry;… So are you saying that if one switches from the non-ACID compliant sqlite to your simple-text data-format, the new 'database' (note the quote marks) will now become ACID compliant? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list