Is it possible to use shelve with a file that is already opened? I’d like to do something like the following, but shelve.open doesn’t accept a file descriptor.
f = open('file.shelve')
s = shelve.open(f)
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shelve is based on dbm, which does not provide an fd interface. Unfortunately, dbm is unlikely to ever provide one, since it relies on the atomicity of
renamefor database consistency.