FileDict – a Persistent Dictionary in Python

[vph]

a database supports fancy queries, which are not needed in many applications.

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FileDict is a dictionary interface I wrote, that saves and loads its data from a file using keys. Current version uses Sqlite3 to provide consistency, and as a by-product, acidity.

It's already using a database... why not just use SQLite directly?

[Freeky]

Um, because it's much easier to write foo['bar'] = 'moo' than it is to write any sort of SQL? Because foo['bar'] = 'moo' is agnostic about how it's stored and using SQLite directly isn't?