I'm not sure if this is relevant but I thought I would throw it out as information in case it is. If you wanted to use SQLite, I have successfully built it for Windows CE and used it. It is a small footprint, fast, limited feature RDBMS which is open source and available for free.
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:42:52 +0100, Anne Wangnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using dumbdbm, which comes in the Python CE distribution. It generates > .dat, .dir & .bak files. However, I'm not using it as a shelve, but rather > as a database. Actually, I'm generating the database on XP and then using it > on CE. > > I believe that as dumbdbm is the only database module available on CE, > shelve.open will always fall back on it on CE. > > Can you try to use shelve.Shelf(dumbdbm.open(filename,'c')) on XP to create > the shelve and on CE to retrieve it? > > Regards, > Sebastian Wangnick > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Auftrag von Mark Doukidis > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2004 03:35 > An: Ron Phillips; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: [PythonCE] Shelve -- has anyone used it successfully? > > Hi Ron, > > I am about to give up on using "shelve" about now. > My problem is that after a time I am getting a corrupted shelve. > It probably is my own doing :( > > I cannot copy my XP generated shelve file to PocketPC because the > PythonCE build does not include all the db modules. > > on XP i have one file generated, on CE I have 3 generated (.dat, .dir & > .bak) > > on the XP shelve I tried this: > > >>> import whichdb > >>> whichdb.whichdb("c:/testshelve") > 'dbhash' > > on the CE shelve I get an empty string returned. > > So I figure if you want to use the same shelve across OSs you had > better use the CE > db (whatever that is). > > I must look into this futher myself. > > Hope this can give you a lead. > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > PythonCE mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce > _______________________________________________ PythonCE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
