In article <9efff087-bd6e-49fb-ad30-a955a64b8...@j32g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, mclovin <hanoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >I need to have a dictionary of about 8 gigs (well the data it is >processing is around 4gb). so naturally i am running into memory >errors. > >So i looked around and found bsddb which acts like a dictionary object >only offloads the data from the RAM to the HDD, however that only >supports strings.
Look at the pickle module. Personally, I'd use SQLite instead of bsddb. You might also look into a full-blown ORM such as SQLAlchemy. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "as long as we like the same operating system, things are cool." --piranha -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
