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From: Ken Watford <kwatford@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:49:38 -0400
Subject: Re: Replacement for the shelve module?
To: Forafo San <ppv.grps@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Forafo San <ppv.grps@gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
> What might be a good replacement for the shelve module, but one that
> can handle a few gigs of data. I'm doing some calculations on daily
> stock prices and the result is a nested list like:

For what you're doing, I would give PyTables a try.