RE: [Pythoncard-users] evaluating shelve module

Gordon McMillan has a python wrapper for metakit called MkSql that puts a
familiar facade on.

Dave LeBlanc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pyt...@li...
> [mailto:pyt...@li...]On Behalf Of Kevin
> Altis
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 11:05
> To: pythoncard-Users
> Subject: RE: [Pythoncard-users] evaluating shelve module
>
>
> > From: Magnus Lie Hetland
> > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:50 AM
> > To: Kevin Altis
> > Cc: pythoncard-Users
> > Subject: Re: [Pythoncard-users] evaluating shelve module
> >
> >
> > Kevin Altis <al...@se...>:
> > >
> > > shelve is one option we have for creating persistant data. ZODB
> > is another.
> > > We can't use something like anydbm, because the actual files
> created by
> > > anydbm aren't portable across operating systems, only the source is
> > > portable. Dan Shafer has started looking at shelve as described
> > below. Those
> > > of you interested in this area should share your findings on the list.
> >
> > shelve is good... But if you're considering ZODB (i.e. C extensions),
> > have you taken a look at MetaKit? It's a very nice little DB engine...
>
> No. Is this the home page?
>
>   http://www.equi4.com/metakit/
>
> One requirement we have is that the storage mechanism needs to be usable
> like a file and doesn't require a server process to be running. I
> think that
> rules out something like MySQL as simple default persistant data
> store. Feel
> free to share any MetaKit info you have.
>
> I like the idea of shelve since it is simple and built-in to Python and I
> like the idea of ZODB because it will probably be built-in to
> Python 2.3 and
> provides more capabilities. Of course, use of ZODB probably also lends
> itself to some integration between PythonCard and Zope in the
> future, but we
> may be able to simply do that via XML-RPC.
>
> ka
>
>
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