Hubert Tournier added the comment:
The storage format used under Windows is completely different from the one used
under Unix (or *BSD).
Apart from the .dat datafile, there is a .dir index file with CSV lines such as
"'key', (offset, length)".
Whereas under Unix (or *B
Hubert Tournier added the comment:
Additional note: the test code WORKS under Windows 8.1 / Python 3.9.1 (though
the data file is suffixed .dat instead of .db) resulting in a 4 MB database
with 1065 records, some of them > 11 KB.
So maybe the bug is system dependent.
--
compone
Hubert Tournier added the comment:
I modified the test program to better reflect the size of the data structures
stored in shelve (sys.getsizeof() which I used was far off the real size).
I saw that the database was corrupted with big records, though even bigger
previous records had not
Hubert Tournier added the comment:
Hello,
Same results with Python 3.10.4:
[...]
Adding 185.220.102.6
Database has 62 records for 442368 bytes. Last record was 640 bytes long
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./shelve-test.py", line 84, in
_verify_whois_cache()
File
New submission from Hubert Tournier :
After adding a few records, the shelve module corrupts the database keys (the
database is still readable if an element key is known, but no more iterable):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./shelve-test.py", line 81, in
_verify_w
