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On 8/19/11 10:49 AM, Ken Watford wrote:
> 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.

For a few gigs of stock price data, this is what I use. Much better than SQLite 
for that amount of data.

-- 
Robert Kern

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