Artur>  Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
    > > On 26 Aug 2001, Artur Skura wrote:
    > >> etc, I will just have standard dictionary pairs, with strings.
    > >> I need records. How do I do that?
    > > 
    > > "Keys and values must be strings, however, so to use other objects as keys or
    > > to store other kinds of objects the user must serialize them somehow,
    > > typically using marshal.dumps or pickle.dumps."
    > > 
    > > You wanted very simple database functionality, you found it. Anything more
    > > complex is up to you.
 
    Artur>  OK, I will use dumps/loads. I just thought there might be a more
    Artur>  transparent way, maybe with another db module.

You might want to check out the shelve module.  The keys must still be
strings, but it transparently handles serialization of the values.

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