can you shelve objects with membership? this gives you:
TypeError: object does not support item assignment dict 0 True Exception exceptions.TypeError: 'object does not support item assignment' in ignored > ignored is a bit mysterious. tx in advance. from shelve import * class MyShelf(DbfilenameShelf): def __init__(self, filename, flag='c', protocol=None, writeback=False, binary=None): self.__dict__['ready']=False DbfilenameShelf.__init__(self, filename, flag, protocol, writeback, binary) self.ready=True def __setattr__(self,name,value): if not self.ready: self.__dict__[name]=value else: print name, value, self.ready self.__dict__[name]=value DbfilenameShelf.__setitem__(self,name,value) def open(filename, flag='c', protocol=None, writeback=False, binary=None): return MyShelf(filename, flag, protocol, writeback, binary) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list