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Re: Fast file data retrieval?

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Jorgen Grahn, 13.03.2012 21:44:
> On Mon, 2012-03-12, MRAB wrote:
>> Probably the best solution is to put it into a database. Have a look at
>> the sqlite3 module.
> 
> Some people like to use databases for everything, others never use
> them. I'm in the latter crowd, so to me this sounds as overkill

Well, there's databases and databases. I agree that the complexity of a SQL
database is likely unnecessary here since a key-value database (any of the
dbm modules) appears to be sufficient from what the OP wrote.

Stefan

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Re: Fast file data retrieval? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-03-12 20:31 +0000
  Re: Fast file data retrieval? Jon Clements <joncle@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-12 20:38 -0700
  Re: Fast file data retrieval? Jon Clements <joncle@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-12 20:38 -0700
  Re: Fast file data retrieval? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-13 20:44 +0000
    Re: Fast file data retrieval? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-03-21 17:32 +0100

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