On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Jeremy <jlcon...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have lots of data that I currently store in dictionaries. However, > the memory requirements are becoming a problem. I am considering > using a database of some sorts instead, but I have never used them > before. Would a database be more memory efficient than a dictionary? > I also need platform independence without having to install a database > and Python interface on all the platforms I'll be using. Is there > something built-in to Python that will allow me to do this? > > Thanks, > Jeremy >
Python has SQLite 3 built-in and there are wrappers for MySQL and PostgreSQL on all major platforms. Any one of them will work- databases have the advantage that they're stored on the disk so you don't have all of it in memory simultaneously. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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