> >From looking at the shelve info in the library reference, I get > the impression it's tricky to change the values in the dict for > existing keys and be sure they get changed on disk. You can use writeback=True or call sync at the right places.
> How can you convert a tuple of strings to a string and back in a > reliable deterministic way? The original strings may have ' " , > in them. You can use marshal, json or any other serializing library. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list