Robert Xiao <nneon...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I just started a new project, thoughtlessly decided to use `shelve` to store data, and lost it all again thanks to this bug. To reiterate: Although `gdbm` might fix this issue, it's not installed by default. But the issue is with `dbm`: Python is allowing me to insert elements into the database which exceed internal limits, causing the database to become silently corrupt upon retrieval. This is an unacceptable situation - a very normal, non-complex use of the standard library is causing data loss without any indication that the loss is occurring. At the very least there should be a warning or error that the data inserted exceeds dbm's limits, and in an ideal world dbm would not fall over from inserting a few KB of data in a single row (but I understand that's a third party problem at that point). Can't we just ship a dbm that is backed with a more robust engine, like a SQLite key-value table? ---------- type: -> behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33074> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
