"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A shelve is just a persistent dictionary that uses pickle to store > the objects. If you want to store one or a few objects, using > pickle directly may be easier. Any problem you may have with pickle > (nonpickleable objects, security risks) will happen with shelve too. Shameless plug warning! If you want to store pickles "directly" in a directory with shelve-like dict API, you may also be interested in my "pickleshare" module: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pickleshare/0.3 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
