http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/persistent/top/2011-09-06T20:01:46-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2011-09-06T20:01:46-07:00Raymond Hettingerhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/178123/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576642-persistent-dict-with-multiple-standard-file-format/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576642 by <a href="/recipes/users/178123/">Raymond Hettinger</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/dbm/">dbm</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/dictionary/">dictionary</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/persistent/">persistent</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/shelve/">shelve</a>). Revision 10. </p> <p>dbdict: a dbm based on a dict subclass.</p> <p>On open, loads full file into memory. On close, writes full dict to disk (atomically). Supported output file formats: csv, json, and pickle. Input file format automatically discovered.</p> <p>Usable by the shelve module for fast access.</p>