On Tuesday 10 August 2010, it occurred to kj to exclaim: > I'm looking for a module that implements "persistent lists": objects > that behave like lists except that all their elements are stored > on disk. IOW, the equivalent of "shelves", but for lists rather > than a dictionaries. > > Does anyone know of such a module? > > (I suppose that I could slap together a crude implementation of > such a thing by wrapping a shelf with suitable methods to simulate > the list interface. But I'd rather not roll my own if a tested > implementation already exist.)
You could simply use pickle to save the data every once in a while. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list