Re: [Tutor] Filesystem vs Database vs Lucene

On 29/03/07, Shitiz Bansal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shelves seem nice but I would like to be sure on how it is implemented. > Would it > seek to a particular point in file and load just the desired data in memory > or does it unpickle everything and create a fullblown dictionary in > memory?...

Re: [Tutor] Filesystem vs Database vs Lucene OOPS

Bob Gailer wrote: > Bob Gailer wrote: >> Shitiz Bansal wrote: >> I need to implement a system which stores Strings(average length 50> >>> chars). >>> >> [snip] >> > I may have read 50> as >50. Please confirm that average length IS 50? > I need to implement a system whi

Re: [Tutor] Filesystem vs Database vs Lucene OOPS

Bob Gailer wrote: Shitiz Bansal wrote: I need to implement a system which stores Strings(average length 50> chars). [snip] I may have read 50> as >50. Please confirm that average length IS 50? Are these arbitrary text, or do the words come f

Re: [Tutor] Filesystem vs Database vs Lucene

Shitiz Bansal wrote: > > I need to implement a system which stores Strings(average length 50> > chars). [snip] How much greater than 50? 500, 5000, 50,000, ...? Are these arbitrary text, or do the words come from some predetermined domain? Would you provide some examples? -- Bob Gailer 510-97

Re: [Tutor] Filesystem vs Database vs Lucene

Thanks Alan for your reply. I however have a few more concerns. Memory is not an option not just because of capacity but also because I desire persistence. Also I feel that 500 MB of data in a dictionary would typically cross 1 Gigin total used memory.That of course will depend on the Hashing al

Re: [Tutor] 3 recent short essays by Kent Johnson

Ted Roche wrote: > On 3/26/07, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Python Decorators," "The path module" and "List Comprehensions." >> >> >> Dick Moores >> > > If you're in or near New Hampshire, join the Python SIG > (http://www

Re: [Tutor] 3 recent short essays by Kent Johnson

On 3/26/07, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Python Decorators," "The path module" and "List Comprehensions." > > > Dick Moores If you're in or near New Hampshire, join the Python SIG (http://www.pysig.org) and you might get the change

Re: [Tutor] hints on uuencoding?

James Rocks wrote: > OK ... so I got my mail receipt working (thanks Rikard) but one thing > I will be downloading is attached TRN files. > > I can download a mail and subsequently put it in a text file but then > I want as easy a way as possible (which may or may not involve > uudecoding, there m

Re: [Tutor] web app approach

Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Hi everyone, > > In terms of building a web application, is the preferred method of > development to develop the application as a console app and then migrate > it to a web app? That is a good approach but not the only one. I prefer to develop the functional bits of t

Re: [Tutor] My Python project - an update

On Wednesday 28 March 2007 10:50, Rohan Deshpande wrote: > Out of curiousity, why md5?  Hasn't it been cracked already?  Would sha1 or > 2sum be a better alternative?  I'm a newbie to this so it's just a > question. People have indeed shown vulnerabilities in MD5 for this sort of purpose. Specifi

[Tutor] hints on uuencoding?

OK ... so I got my mail receipt working (thanks Rikard) but one thing I will be downloading is attached TRN files. I can download a mail and subsequently put it in a text file but then I want as easy a way as possible (which may or may not involve uudecoding, there may well be a way to simply p

[Tutor] My Python project - an update

Out of curiousity, why md5? Hasn't it been cracked already? Would sha1 or 2sum be a better alternative? I'm a newbie to this so it's just a question. -Rohan On 3/23/07, Dave S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just to say thank you. Over the last few months I have been asking a lot of dumb questi

[Tutor] web app approach

Hi everyone, In terms of building a web application, is the preferred method of development to develop the application as a console app and then migrate it to a web app? Also, in my readings people have been saying that python frameworks are numerous and not as useful as they seem, and that WSGI