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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