Re: [Pythoncard-users] evaluating shelve module

David LeBlanc wrote:

> 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
>>

And just to add my 0.7888 cents worth (damn that Australian dollar 
exchange rate) I currently plan to expand dbBrowser to support Gadfly 
(as there is now a patched version available for Python 2) and my next 
project is to re-write PyForm from the 2nd Edition of Programming Python 
in PythonCard - that uses shelve as a storage mechanism and has some 
pretty neat code in the back end that I shall be 'borrowing' wholesale from.

If I get a chance I will also take a look at Metakit and Gordons wrapper.

Progress will be reported as (and when) it is made ...

Regards,
Andy
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