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Answer 1

+3 A:

I would start with the shelve module and see if that isn't too slow. It does exactly what you want.

import shelve

d = shelve.open('filename')

d['name'] = 'path'

d.close()

or to read from it

d = shelve.open('filename')

d = hash['name']

It's essentially a wrapper around pickle that provides a dictionary abstraction.

aaronasterling 2010-09-16 07:29:01

+1 Cool, never heard of that module before. -0.1 for shadowing `hash`, though. :o) ... ok, that's been removed now.

jellybean 2010-09-16 07:38:13

@jellybean, something looked wrong to me. changed it to `d` to reflect the fact that it's essentially a dict. good looking out.

aaronasterling 2010-09-16 07:41:51

Answer 2

A:

I'd use pickle and see if it's fast enough for your needs.

Russell Borogove 2010-09-16 07:30:13

Answer 3

A:

I would suggest you use pickle / shelve for serialization of data.

pyfunc 2010-09-16 07:31:07

Efficient way to store hash in a file