How should I prevent corruption in a shelve file? Should the shelve be closed most of the time and then opened only when I need to read or edit a value?
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How should I prevent corruption in a shelve file? Should the shelve be closed most of the time and then opened only when I need to read or edit a value?
If safety of your persistent objects is of high importance in your project, using
shelveis not a good idea. Neither is pickling objects and manually writing them into files.Consider that real databases invest huge resources (brainpower and code) to be safe in case of failures. So keep your data in a real DB. The simplest would be
sqlite, as it comes bundled with Python.sqliteis quite safe and has a lot of smarts in it about keeping your data in some valid state even in case of system failures (like when someone trips on your PC’s power cable).