"Bill Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >>It seems that an SQL database would probably be the way to go, but I >>am a bit concerned about speed issues (even though running time is > ... > You would probably be better off using one of the hash databases, > Berkeley, gdbm, etc. (see the anydbm documentation). These can > be treated exactly like dictionaries in python, and are probably > orders of magnitude faster than using an SQL database.
I'm glad Bill suggested this because I'd forgotten about them entirely! But while they wont literally be "orders of magnitude" faster - the disk I/O subsystem is usually the main limiter here - they will be several factors faster, in fact many SQL databases use the dbm database under the hood. It's years since I used dbm, I must have a play - just for old times sake! :-) Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
