shove is a object storage frontend inspired by the standard library's shelve module. It features a dictionary-style API, automatic object storage (with pickle) with in-storage compression (with zlib), and multiple storage and caching backends.
The currently supported storage backends are: * Amazon S3 Web Service * Berkeley Source Database * Filesystem-based * Firebird * FTP * DBM * Durus * Memory * Microsoft SQL Server * MySQL * Oracle * PostgreSQL * SQLite * Subversion * Zope Object Database (ZODB) Currently supported caching backends are: * Filesystem-based * Firebird * memcached * Memory (thread-safe or non-thread-sa * Microsoft SQL Server * MySQL * Oracle * PostgreSQL * SQLite The simplest use case for shove is: from shove import Shove store = Shove() creating an in-memory store and cache. To use a different storage or caching backend, a backend-specific URI or an existing store or cache instance must be passed to the Shove class using the format: <STORENAME> = Shove(<STORE>, <CACHE>) Each backend-specific URI format is documented in its module source code. The URI format follows the URI format used by SQLAlchemy: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/dbengine.myt#dbengine_establishing shove is available for download from its CheeseShop page: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/shove or it can be installed by using setuptools: easy_install shove shove has been tested and confirmed to work on Python 2.4 and Python 2.5. shove has an extension, multishove, with the same features but with added support for storing objects to multiple storage backends simultaneously. shove itself can only store objects to one backend at a time. To use multiple backends with multishove, multiple backend-specific URIs or store instances must be passed to the MultiShove class following the format: from multishove import MultiShove <STORENAME> = MultiShove(<STORE1>, <STORE2> ..., cache=<CACHE>) multishove is available for download from its CheeseShop page: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/multishove or it can be installed by using setuptools: easy_install multishove multishove has been tested and confirmed to work on Python 2.4 and Python 2.5. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html