MindMaster32 wrote: >I am writing a script that has to read data from an ASCII file of >about 50 Mb and do a lot of searches and calculations with that data. >That would be a classic problem solved by the use of a database >(SQLite would suit just fine), but that would require the user to >install more packages other than python itself, and that I am trying >to avoid. >Since the data is not too large, I wonder if there is another way to >store all data in memory and work with it more or less like a >database, doing searches and working with datafields. > >This is not clear to me how can be implemented. I thought of creating >a class with the data structure, and creating a list of objects of >that class, each one containing one line of data from the "database". > >Any thoughts or suggestions? > >Thanks! >Eduardo > > > What about shelve? It Requires some db support, yes....And what about just reading the file and making a dict? It is a `csv' like file, so you can just read it and generate a dict?
Cheers. Gerardo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
