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Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:55:48 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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SQLite has a neat feature where if you give it a the file-name of 
':memory:' the resulting table is in memory and not on disk.  I thought 
it was a cool feature, but expanded it slightly: any name surrounded by 
colons results in an in-memory table.

I'm looking at the same type of situation with indices, but now I'm 
wondering if the :name: method is not pythonic and I should use a flag 
(in_memory=True) when memory storage instead of disk storage is desired.

Thoughts?

~Ethan~