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Re: Replacement for the shelve module?

From Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com>
Subject Re: Replacement for the shelve module?
Date 2011-08-19 12:45 -0500
Organization The Church of Last Thursday
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On 8/19/11 10:49 AM, Ken Watford wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Forafo San<ppv.grps@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Folks,
>> What might be a good replacement for the shelve module, but one that
>> can handle a few gigs of data. I'm doing some calculations on daily
>> stock prices and the result is a nested list like:
>
> For what you're doing, I would give PyTables a try.

For a few gigs of stock price data, this is what I use. Much better than SQLite 
for that amount of data.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco

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Replacement for the shelve module? Forafo San <ppv.grps@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 08:31 -0700
  Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Ken Watford <kwatford@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 11:49 -0400
  Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-08-19 17:54 +0200
    Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Forafo San <ppv.grps@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 09:21 -0700
  Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 10:15 -0700
  Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 12:45 -0500
  Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-20 06:36 +1000
    Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 17:24 -0500
      Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-20 11:38 +1000
        Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-08-21 12:37 +1200
          Re: Replacement for the shelve module? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-21 01:54 +0100

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