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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:09:32 +0200
From: Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se>
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On 23-Oct-2012 18:35, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:31:17 +0200, Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> Finally, to my question --- What is a fast way to write these variables to an
>> external file and then read them in backwards?
>>
> 	Stuff them into an SQLite3 database and retrieve using a descending
> sort?
Have never worked with a database; but, could be worth a try (at least to 
compare I/O times).

Thanks Dennis :-)