On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:55:53 +0000, Tim Harig wrote: Thanks for taking the time to check in on this, Tim!
> So, basically, you want to store a local copy of the data and sync it to > the original. In a way. I only need to store one copy of the data, and make note of changes between it and the current data. > You need to differentiate between the in memory data model and the > storage model. Since this data comes from a database in the first > place, I would dump it to an sqlite3 database from the beginning. You > can use this to store, modify, and change the values as you receive them > from the database. I thought of doing that, but given that I only need to store a single instance of the data, a simple pickle will do the job nicely (am I correct in reading that it can save/load any python object?) > If you are looking for in-memory structures, then you haven't really > provided us with enough information on the significance and organization > of the data. The data columns: Long Int, String (under 30 chars), String (over 100 chars) The rows can scale up to hundreds, perhaps thousands. The integer is the database key, the shorter string is a user name, and the longer string is an access control definition. The whole idea of this script is to check, daily, for any added or removed users - or any altered access control definition. I realize this could likely all be done from inside the database itself - but altering the DB itself is not an option (as the product vendor is very touchy about that, and altering it can null our support agreement) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
