Re: Shelve or pickle module

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  • Gabriel Genellina

    Re: Shelve or pickle module

    En Sun, 18 May 2008 00:14:19 -0300, Guillaume Bog <guibog@gmail.c omescribió:
    I read and re-read "Python in a Nutshell" written by Alex Martelli,
    who knows what he is talking about. I'm a bit new to python and I'm
    going to start doing persistence side on a project. Martelli's book
    seems to tell me that I should use shelve module, but any code I
    browsed is using pickle instead. Is there any reason to prefer pickle
    over shelve?
    A shelve is just a persistent dictionary that uses pickle to store the objects.
    If you want to store one or a few objects, using pickle directly may be easier.
    Any problem you may have with pickle (nonpickleable objects, security risks) will happen with shelve too.

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    Gabriel Genellina

  • Ville M. Vainio

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    Re: Shelve or pickle module

    "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2@yahoo.com.a rwrites:

    A shelve is just a persistent dictionary that uses pickle to store
    the objects. If you want to store one or a few objects, using
    pickle directly may be easier. Any problem you may have with pickle
    (nonpickleable objects, security risks) will happen with shelve too.
    Shameless plug warning!

    If you want to store pickles "directly" in a directory with
    shelve-like dict API, you may also be interested in my "pickleshar e"
    module:



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