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Re: Unshelving the data?

Subject Re: Unshelving the data?
From Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
References <4433955b-7f54-400a-af08-1f58a75e734c@j31g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>
Date 2011-06-02 06:46 -0400
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.2389.1307013346.9059.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 19:49 -0700, Uncle Ben wrote:
> Shelving is a wonderfully simple way to get keyed access to a store of
> items. I'd like to maintain this cache though.

+1

> Is there any way to remove a shelved key once it is hashed into the
> system?  I could do it manually by removing the value and erasing the
> key in the directory list. But is there a more elegant way?

del shelve[key]

> Or should I to go the full database route?  It is not a lage
> application.

Stick with shelves.  Much simpler.

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Unshelving the data? Uncle Ben <bgreen@nycap.rr.com> - 2011-06-01 19:49 -0700
  Re: Unshelving the data? Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-06-02 03:24 +0000
  Re: Unshelving the data? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-02 13:25 +1000
  Re: Unshelving the data? Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> - 2011-06-02 06:46 -0400
    Re: Unshelving the data? Uncle Ben <bgreen@nycap.rr.com> - 2011-06-02 06:17 -0700

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