python-pickleshare

Tiny shelve-like database with concurrency support

PickleShare - a small 'shelve' like datastore with concurrency support Like shelve, a PickleShareDB object acts like a normal dictionary. Unlike shelve, many processes can access the database simultaneously. Changing a value in database is immediately visible to other processes accessing the same database. Concurrency is possible because the values are stored in separate files. Hence the "database" is a directory where *all* files are governed by PickleShare. This module is certainly not ZODB, but can be used for low-load (non-mission-critical) situations where tiny code size trumps the advanced features of a "real" object database. Installation guide: pip install path pickleshare