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according to the book instruduction , i use shelve Module to write
record to file.

i only write ten records like this:

name sex age

jim male 22
tom male 23
lucy female 21

.................................................. others( about ten
records)

but i find the size of this file .oh my god , it is about 24k

the file is too large ! is it normal ?

i don't dare to think that if i has 1000 records , it will be a very
large file!

>> i only write ten records like this:

>> name sex age

>> jim male 22
>> tom male 23
>> lucy female 21
...

>> but i find the size of this file .oh my god , it is about 24k

>> the file is too large ! is it normal ?

Yes. It's the nature of packages like Berkeley DB, gdbm and dbm (the
packages mediate access to the database file under the covers) that they
trade space for time. The files they create are not simple text files.
They are organized to permit quick access to records by key and to permit
average time fast insertion.

Skip

i'rta:
> >> i only write ten records like this:
>
> >> name sex age
>
> >> jim male 22
> >> tom male 23
> >> lucy female 21
> ...
>
> >> but i find the size of this file .oh my god , it is about 24k
>
> >> the file is too large ! is it normal ?
>
> Yes. It's the nature of packages like Berkeley DB, gdbm and dbm (the
> packages mediate access to the database file under the covers) that they
> trade space for time.
Sometimes you add records but the size of the database does not
change...
> The files they create are not simple text files.
> They are organized to permit quick access to records by key and to permit
> average time fast insertion.
>
> Skip
>

really

in which case?

In article < .com>,
softwindow <> wrote:
[some context restored]
>> Sometimes you add records but the size of the database does not
>> change...
>really
>
>in which case?

whenever the database is big enough to add them without it's having to
grow




--
Jim Segrave ()